by the bed of the sick before they'd turn her again
so she could conspire with ghosts
outside the trees force out buds
& rain is stuck to the window
everything's bewildered just to be here
shadowless & all a shine as if newly born
they turn her back towards us & we're listening
for more things being wheeled out from light
Mark DeCarteret's work has appeared in the anthologies American Poetry: The Next Generation (Carnegie Mellon Press), Places of Passage: Contemporary Catholic Poetry (Story Line Press), Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998 (Black Sparrow Press) and Under the Legislature of Stars: 62 New Hampshire Poets (Oyster River Press) which he also co-edited. A chapbook (If This Is the) New World was released last year from March Street Press.
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