Robert Carr
Alchemical Waters
Sated is the place just out of reach in a blackened room. Cock dowsing the center that sustains space. Deep pant creased mage, port-a-potty fucker, surgeon of hunger, flushing bright blue chemical waters. Dare defy a simple protein— come uninfected through insistence on paternity, to a field where women glean seed. My transformation from never enough to claim it all. The note, teaching by the bed—To hold a dying hand, hotter than squeezed crotch. Changing men, the defiant transition from glory hole to Daddy— I stand wrapped in damp glitter. A veil. If you touch my solid flesh you will never die. Share a son in the Capitol, new love in the valley, a husband like no other.
Massachusetts-based poet Robert Carr is the author of Amaranth (Indolent Books, 2016) and The Unbuttoned Eye, a full-length collection forthcoming from 3: A Taos Press. Among other publications his poetry appears in the Bellevue Literary Review, Crab Orchard Review, The Massachusetts Review and Rattle. Robert is Developmental Editor with Indolent Books and an editor for the anthology Bodies and Scars, forthcoming from the Ghana Writes Literary Group. Additional information can be found at robertcarr.org.
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