Intimate Cartography
Once you were in side of me mourning
love tahiti
the trenchant mouth
extremis
line
your head fairbanks alaska
the window
bed
another foreign country
There you were
existing soign
in the adrift maldives
ée like
all be
earthsmoke nea
ready gone th
a
mid-swan tre
song e
m y
l
o
v
e r
a refugee
montana banknotes
You left
the country
in time
pants
lined with
belongings
behind all your a son
your father’s watch
dj’s gun
a memori
moonlit this map es
chasm
Now you are out
side of me west
of dodge
standing
hitching a ride in the sun
past five
on a highway of your mind
manned to drive
past california
CAMILLE CARTER (she/her) is an American poet and scholar. She lives and teaches in New York, where she is currently pursuing her PhD in Comparative Literature. Her work appears or is forthcoming in The Best American Poetry 2025, Five Points, New American Writing, POETRY Magazine, Passages North, and Raritan. At present, she is the Literary Fellow In-Residence at the Chautauqua Institution in Chautauqua, New York.
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