Sequence of a Defusion, a Glory

Cast into the iron—

years fall away into colonies

of yellow & hive:

your body between

beginning & end,

lit with revolution’s grace.

Nobody asks

about

you

when

you

cast

quotation marks &

social policies to horses—

one is a bear,

held

in interior.





laura carter

Laura Carter is a writer in Atlanta, where she earned her MFA in 2007.