Carter McKenzie
$5
Elspeth Philipppublished in Ottawa by above/ground press
I told them I’d met the devil
at oatseedtime. His promise
I would want for nothing.
The bright green stems.
The future harvest.
The good bread.
Springtime. How could
love become this, vivid
enough, my telling
what they want from me.
What I want.
The telling come
undone, playing pipes
he was, I said, dressed
in green, a little black man
playing pipes, I said
forbidden sleep
forbidden sleep
I tell and tell
they torment me.
December 2024
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Carter McKenzie (she/her) is the author of a chapbook of poetry Naming Departure (Traprock Books, 2004), and two full-length books of poetry, Out of Refusal (Airlie Press, 2010) and Stem of Us (Flowstone Press, 2018). She is currently working on a full-length book manuscript of poetry called Evidence of the Burning Times. She lives in the foothills of western Oregon’s Cascade Mountains in the Middle Fork Willamette watershed near Lost Creek, in a valley that is the traditional homeland of the Molalla Mountain Band. Carter is an active member of the local chapter of SURJ/ Showing Up for Racial Justice.
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