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Bill Carty

Bill Carty is the author of the chapbook "Refugium" (alice blue books). He lives in Seattle and teaches at Edmonds Community College.

Recent Work

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Too late to / the party I findtwo balloonsin a tree flirting / with escape,flirting withfalling. Fire hasits dark slash / across the trunk.It’s…

Mutual Flora

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Toward the end / the car lurched / at even the thought / / of leaving / her foot silent / on the pedal / / she felt herself move / …

Experiment with Solids

Bill Carty

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A tennis ball spends every day watching the same patch of sky, a patch of sky that used to be a globe. Don’t believe science when it tells you…

I’m Busting Out

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I’m busting out, says the last test-taker / to the proctor before disappearing / between the greenhouses, gone native / with the squirrels. He…

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Dear Corporation(Precarious College Town…

Adam Fell

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I was about to smash my hand / through the shatterproof glass / of another disheveled college town halloween, / but then this girl walked past…

A Pysanka for My Mother’s Poetry Book

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It kept the table steady, her marbled / notebook filled with poems. / The pages go blank a few months / after I was born, when the uneven / dining…

Lloyd as Quasimodo

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You possess a loneliness / that seems to fight for itself, Lloyd, / like some old dog running to the woods / a too cold winter night and all …

Brian Foley

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I saw Rich become a stranger and was thankful / I saw Haley sleep before travel and was thankful / I saw Elena sew the seams and was thankful / I…

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