I peek into where
we keep them
too weak now
but to lean in
nearly kneeling
at worship
only cleared to
speak of them
in these news
leaks & hearsay
I’ve had to swear
off from honeyed lips
Mark DeCarteret has been working at Water Street Books in Exeter NH for 10 years. Worked at Stroudwater Books in Portsmouth for 7. And Wordsworth in Cambridge MA for 1. He’s also worked at the Emerson College Library in Boston and volunteered at Wiggin Memorial Library in Stratham NH. His poetry has appeared in 450 reviews, 25 anthologies and 7 books.