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.
BOULEVARD
he tells me
he's done
more damage
trying to come to
a haiku
way back when
he took up
half the world
just coughing
something rare
at the same time
he thumb plugged
the oldest of rivers
on that road
they say only
veers off
for the lost shoe
& the packies
back when he'd
give up all
his Jesuses
for a mouth
full of sedans
Copyright © Mark DeCarteret,
2003. All Rights Reserved.