Two Poems
Laura Carter
With-With-In
Blouse
wails now,
wills now in
clavicle
pulling forth from
in-
to socialist space
as you turn into a curve of
a small
leniency of hole
& an epic friendship
Temper Hope With Caution
edging falling into absolute, baskets
of gossip
& sheathing calls
binaries opposed
You thought this world was
measured in fifteen shades of pleasure & undone politics
of heart
with a sad knife
created stains
over a map on a landscape
fest of
for a case
makes you
carry you
beside a map
& you
tried to make feelers more sensitive
o calendrina
so
if there
is a voice behind a canvas
it must be yours at least tonight
One man
at edge of bishop’s
land is carrying his water
back to drown a sewing machine
in cubes of money.
Laura Carter lives, writes, and teaches in Atlanta, Georgia, where she earned her MFA in 2007. Recent work has appeared in many journals, including The Berkeley Poetry Review, Whiskey Island, Columbia, Hambone, TYPO, and on-line at Tarpaulin Sky. Her most recent chapbook is Midheaven Leo (Dancing Girl, 2011), and a new chapbook, Chaos Provisions, is forthcoming from Dancing Girl in 2014. She was a finalist for the 2012 Coconut Books Prize for a First Book of Poetry and for the 2013 Noemi Book Award for Poetry. She frequently writes reviews for publications like The Fanzine and Atticus Review. She has given readings in Atlanta, New York, Chicago, Boone, NC, and Athens, GA. She lives on the east side of the city with her dog and two cats.
