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

                something slips
                inside the mind
                & you stumble
                once again
                over words
                that don't
                add up
                yep the world's
                been made

                something slips
                inside the mind
                & you stumble
                once again
                over words
                that don't
                add up
                yep the world's
                been made
                stupid
                by much less
                so that
                everything
                tripped over
                from here on in
                does not come
                without
                the blessing
                of the road



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