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  • Sunlight
  • Jefferson Carter (bio)

I remember lyingon Nancy's bed,Nancy on one side,her older sisteron the other, sunlightpouring over the sheets,warming our bare legsas I recited my new poem.I remember thinkingI love women, the waythey smell, how they look& feel, the nightclubof my mind quiet for once,the poem describinga sentient rock, a hermitwho sealed up the entranceto his cave, leaving a slitthrough which the villagerspushed his food. [End Page 17]

Jefferson Carter

Jefferson Carter has poems in such journals as Carolina Quarterly, Barrow Street, and New Poets of the American West. In 2013, Chax Press (Tucson) published his ninth collection, Get Serious: New and Selected Poems. He's lived in Tucson since 1954 and is currently a volunteer with Sky Island Alliance, a locally-based environmental organization.

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