Poem: Octopus floating . . .
By Bill Knott
Octopus floating
in earth’s ink-ore core
whose arms extend
up here as trees
may your branches squirt
their black across
my pages please
Bill Knott, [“Octopus floating ...”] from Poetry 183 (March 2004): 330, 332. Copyright © 2004 by . Reprinted with the permission of .
Source:
Poetry
(2004)
