So she won’t forget, Mother stamps a metal tag with 29, her age when she delivered the sky. Carefully, she hooks a triangle of lead to a wooden five-point star. Seamstress, she rocks on a celestial porch, sips tea with lemon, counts wormholes in decking and constellations. Tying secret knots, she cross-stitches aurora borealis, capricious […]
Robert Carr
Robert Carr is a Maine-based author of five collections of poetry, most recently, Blue Memento (Lily Poetry Review Books, 2025) and Phallus Sprouting Leaves, winner of the 2024 Rane Arroyo Chapbook Series (Seven Kitchens Press). Robert’s work has appeared in many journals and magazines including The Greensboro Review, The Massachusetts Review, and Shenandoah.