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“titleless” by Mark DeCarteret

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Bigger Than They Apear

in a field
familiar
in every
way but
the birds
flying in
forced
exhalation
unlike any
I’ve seen
then it’s winter
I’m a fountain
of trembling
in a house
w/white walls
& a lady bug
struggling
to get back
red again

-Mark DeCarteret,
Bigger Than They Appear
(Accents Publishing)

Mark DeCarteret served as the seventh Poet Laureate of Portsmouth, New Hampshire from 2009–2011. You can check out his Postcard Project at pplp.org.