FEASTS/Week 22
st bona
snow enshrined w/light--
this squall that is never quite
falling, never quite flight
st joan of arc
some turn up in white
& others attired in light--
you were burned by both
st petronilla
fallible or not
her father had less laundry
fishing than poping
st gwen
1) she had thought 2)
enough & 3) though He’d thought
most 4) she thought more
st blandina
I’d be lying if I
said I couldn’t bear having them
think the worst of me
st kevin
women he’d thrown off
cliffs had come back as blackbirds,
worlds lurking in words
st francis caracciola
heart shot up w/light--
the thing hardest to part w/’s
that limited sight
Mark DeCarteret's work has appeared in AGNI, BostonReview, Chicago Review, Conduit, Cream City Review, Phoebe, PoetryEast, Pool, Quick Fiction, Salamander, Salt Hill, Sonora Review and Third Coast as well as the anthologies American Poetry: The NextGeneration (Carnegie Mellon Press), Thus Spake the Corpse: An ExquisiteCorpse Reader (Black Sparrow Press) and Under the Legislature of Stars:62 New Hampshire Poets (Oyster River Press) which I also co-edited. Flap, DeCarteret's fifth book, is due out with Finishing Line Press. He is currently Poet Laureate of Portsmouth New Hampshire. You may find him at Postcard Project.