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

                why when
                your lips
                seemed so
                certain
                as if
                when we
                kissed
                there was

                why when
                your lips
                seemed so
                certain
                as if
                when we
                kissed
                there was
                nothing
                that would
                ever
                tell us
                otherwise
                when really
                how it was
                was that you
                couldn't be
                ever less
                phased
                where as
                I couldn't
                tell who
                was who
                or where
                one of us
                ended



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