Mark DeCarteret

Mark DeCarteret has published poems in AGNI, Atlanta Review, Chicago Review, Conduit, Cream City Review, Phoebe, Salt Hill, 3rd bed, and The Carnegie Mellon Press Anthology of American Poetry. His first collection, Review--A Book of Poems, published by Kettle of Fish Press in 1995, was, according to Bill Knott,"filled with insight and outrage, monstrosities and miracles." Before that, he published a chapbook, Over Easy (Minotaur, 1990). A second chapbook, The Great Apology, was just published by Oyster River Press.

Published on 10/6/2003

                you troweled over
                expectations
                convinced yourself
                the muffled sneeze
                that taste of paste
                could traverse
                the fjord at your core

                you troweled over
                expectations
                convinced yourself
                the muffled sneeze
                that taste of paste
                could traverse
                the fjord at your core
                & your children's
                sprung antlers
                were columns
                they'd scrimmaged
                through books for
                a candle's growled
                imperatives like
                lies stabilized
                by Styrofoam
                sure ain't nothing
                like the wind
                to spook your resolve
                unsticker what's said
                about better bones
                better be better be



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