Mark DeCarteret
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Return to where the walnuts have been gutted
and your law books teeth-tugged towards the evergreens
to be wrung into wreaths, versed in bloodier intonations,
to where you’d seen ten or so turkeys burst forth from the scrub,
lurch across the white crust and curse your gods beneath their breath,
or return to where cardinals, bled-targets, have regained the sewer grate,
borrowing from the sun and its unwavering brow-beating,
or the snow’s gone a gun-gray where it’s rutted
and given to shadow, those dashes lent wordlessness,
but return, nonetheless―with the grunts, urgent strides
of a boy growing sorrier, ever-worried of his worsening diet,
to where nature is not always blown-up, then doctored,
then blown-up again.
Mark DeCarteret's poems can be found in BlazeVOX, Common Ground Review, Confrontation, Everyday Genius, Gargoyle, Ghost Ocean Magazine, Hunger Mountain, Spillway, Toad Suck Review and Willard and Maple.
Return to September 2013 Edition
Return to where the walnuts have been gutted
and your law books teeth-tugged towards the evergreens
to be wrung into wreaths, versed in bloodier intonations,
to where you’d seen ten or so turkeys burst forth from the scrub,
lurch across the white crust and curse your gods beneath their breath,
or return to where cardinals, bled-targets, have regained the sewer grate,
borrowing from the sun and its unwavering brow-beating,
or the snow’s gone a gun-gray where it’s rutted
and given to shadow, those dashes lent wordlessness,
but return, nonetheless―with the grunts, urgent strides
of a boy growing sorrier, ever-worried of his worsening diet,
to where nature is not always blown-up, then doctored,
then blown-up again.
Mark DeCarteret's poems can be found in BlazeVOX, Common Ground Review, Confrontation, Everyday Genius, Gargoyle, Ghost Ocean Magazine, Hunger Mountain, Spillway, Toad Suck Review and Willard and Maple.
Return to September 2013 Edition