It Is Much Better Toward by Laura Carter
I say a thing
& then pretend to fall back
like looking for a horse where
there once was nothing &
looking for an animal
plasticity or
the feeling of
a disaster x’d
out of the margins by me
& then centered
& then removed a stem
& then a list
& then removed a black list
You are beautiful
& I don’t know
but because you know I think I
can & wasn’t that shoegazing
what the world was doing?
Every little leaf
pretends to find a limit
before dusk hits the palm of us
when us means that no one
or Odysseus is moving
when us means that
the only way to remember what
the world says is so obvious
is to turn into the season
or simply to turn around
where all of the good things are.
october 13th, 2020Laura Carter is a poet and writer living in Atlanta, GA, where she completed grad school in poetry in 2007. Since then, she’s published several chapbooks, three of which were with Dancing Girl Press in Chicago. She’s also published numerous book reviews and individual poems in journals online and in print.