Poem 8 ± November 8, 2018

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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