- Sunlight
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 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.