MORELS
(In temperate regions of the northern hemisphere,
over seventy species of the highly prized
mushroom, Morchella, may be found)
This is the way, through apple trees
gone wild – on past
The ruined church, where branches seize
and catch – at last
An opening in the fence. We
come every spring
Along a path that gradually
bends ’round, to bring
Us back to what, still hidden here,
not far below,
Occasionally will reappear
in the patched snow.
SHORELINE
Then in late winter, after rain
has swept the sea,
And neither presence can explain
the mystery
Of sand unblemished, or of waves
that wander there,
Though nothing follows, nothing saves
those margins where
Half circles fade. As from a dream,
a ragged frond
Of seaweed surfaces, and gleams,
and then is gone.
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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