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near (white)
by Mark DeCarteret
soon timid branches
will be wedded to snow
& these walks only met by
the jay's ceaseless balking
the rhetorical red of the cardinal
where the forest will have cringed
into another of those pastoral phrases
the "I" supplying more than is ever asked of it
Mark DeCarteret's poems have appeared in numerous publications, including Agenda (England), AGNI, Atlanta Review, Caliban, Chicago Review, Conduit, Cream City Review, The Del Sol Review, Hotel Amerika, Killing the Buddha, Le Petite Zine, Phoebe, Poetry East, Quick Fiction, Salt Hill, and 3rd bed, as well as the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon Press, 2000), Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader (Black Sparrow Press, 1999), and Under the Legislature of Stars: 62 New Hampshire Poets (Oyster River Press), which he also co-edited. Work is also forthcoming in Boston Review, failbetter, Mudfish, New Orleans Review, and Third Coast. His books include Over Easy (chapbook—Minotaur Press), Review (Kettle of Fish Press), and The Great Apology (chapbook—Oyster River Press for which he also edited Under the Legislature of Stars—62 New Hampshire Poets). The latest, (If This Is the) New World, published in 2008, is available from March Street Press.
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