person Mark DeCarteret, one poem

~ barton smock

The work of poet Mark DeCarteret has appeared in 400 publications and also in 6 books.

~

in theory

who’s to say
you are hearing
anything I am

as today
I am shown
many notes more

than the ones
I thought I’d
heard yesterday

so every song
is now
seemingly

made up
of those same
missing moments?

~

Published by barton smock

*writes poetry at kingsoftrain.com **self published books available upon request made to bartonsmock@yahoo.com ***other books Ghost Arson (Kung Fu Treachery Press, 2018), skin to skin in an unmarked life (Trainwreck Press, 2021)

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