Nancy Naomi Carlson
Nancy Naomi Carlson is the prize-winning author of two chapbooks and one collection of poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in such journals as AGNI, The Georgia Review and The Southern Review. She is an associate editor of Tupelo Press and an instructor at the Bethesda Writer’s Center.
Reading List
Looking Back
That blessing of salt— chlorine and sodium ions bound like bodies in love. A desert I held in my hands. Once I sprinkled salt on a magpie’s tail to keep it from flying, but fooled by its mournful, mirrored, lake-lit …
Baudelaire’s Pillared Temple
Perfumes, hues, and sounds echo one another. —C.B. Nature as pillared temple – I’ll go along, even accept that columns speak, though the words are mumbled, muted. Yes to perfumes mellow as oboes – maybe malachite-blue? – or perfumes depraved …
Juno’s Garden
Jupiter spades the earth and sows the sky while I tend thistle, mountain laurel, sage and a tumbleweed fire – hearthless, undying. Nothing lasts for long above the tree line – not even omens, clouded and shifting shapes. Jupiter spades …