Chapbook Excerpts
by Nicole Cartwright
genre:
Poetry
description:
Chapter 1 is the title poem from the chapbook Recovering the Body, from dancing girl press.
Chapter 2 is a poem from the e-chap Purview of Undoing, from Gold Wake Press.
chapters
chapter 1:
Recovering the Body
chapter 2:
from Purview to Undoing (e-chap)
Recovering the Body
chapter 1
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Recovering the Body
we found her along the edge of town,
skirting the sands,
five miles from anywhere,
a pale candle melting in a noon sun
she was sundry, impossibly bland,
a not-quite blonde
who passed through
lurking about, looking for trouble,
for something she tossed out the window
of a car, traveling fast through gravel
through the past,
past a navel
panties bloomed a poppy red,
face shamed the same tone, face
downward toward the pool,
a mired thing, warmly leaking
telltale images of yesterday:
the topdown drive of carefree brunettes,
a stern face on a wall at home
tiny beads bound to a box,
pushed to the back of the drawer
all forgotten with the first blow
the last sound of no
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Recovering the Body
we found her along the edge of town,
skirting the sands,
five miles from anywhere,
a pale candle melting in a noon sun
she was sundry, impossibly bland,
a not-quite blonde
who passed through
lurking about, looking for trouble,
for something she tossed out the window
of a car, traveling fast through gravel
through the past,
past a navel
panties bloomed a poppy red,
face shamed the same tone, face
downward toward the pool,
a mired thing, warmly leaking
telltale images of yesterday:
the topdown drive of carefree brunettes,
a stern face on a wall at home
tiny beads bound to a box,
pushed to the back of the drawer
all forgotten with the first blow
the last sound of no
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