UNCONCEALMENT
Like that water touched by shining
that yields no trace
Beyond itself, undermining
no passing grace
Or moment, still emerging where
no thing can last
Or venture, manifesting there
in ways that cast
Loss into focus – what receives
and realigns,
Where patterns on the water leave
no mark behind.
ULTERIOR
And if such stillness overflows,
it does not fall
Entirely away, but slows,
as when a caul
Deflects the sight from moments lost
to moments still
To come. Invariably the cost
of knowing will
Be paid, yet deep within that stream,
something remains –
A clarity that even dreams
cannot sustain.
'Ulterior' was first published in Better than Starbucks.
Jared Carter’s most recent collection, The Land Itself, is from Monongahela Books in West Virginia. His Darkened Rooms of Summer: New and Selected Poems, with an introduction by Ted Kooser, was published by the University of Nebraska Press in 2014. A recipient of several literary awards and fellowships, Carter is from the state of Indiana in the U.S.
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