SHADOW
Oh no, not so, and now you say
that it could not
Have possibly occurred that way,
the merest thought
It could be otherwise must be
dismissed. It was
Illusion of some sort -- to see
the moment pause,
That face appear. You knew how far
she'd come, but when
You failed to speak, the way things are
flowed back again.
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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