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Jessie Carty

Quark

A Writer's Bloc Denial in One Minute

 

Quark

Quark is a Republican, a fiscal conservative, but secretly he spreads thin like a gluon field; wormholing discounts to a few of the downtrodden who don’t threaten his profits because he’s an elementary entity with simple motivations involving the need to pile up, pull in until he has the monetary equivalent of a neutron, then an atom, cell or the whole fortune of a body; body naked and perhaps coated in whatever is valuable at the end of the universe.

 

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A Writer's Bloc Denial in One Minute

There is too much poetry of
poetry, of
a poet’s love
of words, lines of

prepositions, forms as games, rhymes,
propositions
strained to fit like
last Spring’s best white

T-shirt; that once unfolded is
origami creased
and just a bit
cold and too tight.

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Jessie Carty's writing has appeared in publications such as, MARGIE, decomP and Connotation Press. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks AT THE A&P MERIDIEM (Pudding House 2009) and THE WAIT OF ATOM(Folded Word 2009) as well as a full length poetry collection, PAPER HOUSE (Folded Word 2010). Jessie teaches at RCCC in Concord, NC. She is also the photographer and editor for Referential Magazine.  She can be found around the web, especially at http://jessiecarty.com where she blogs about everything from housework to the act of blogging itself.

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