Sometime When I Read a Poem
carriejonesbooks Sometimes when I read a poem, Right after, I have to find another and plunge Down between its lines, a better kind of baptism, Just to get clean. I run…
poetry
I Saw a Poet’s Face Today
The Poet's Faceby Carrie JonesI saw the poet’s face for the first time Today. It wasn’t what I expected, More Springsteen than Jesus. His head tilted To the side like…
THE EFFORT – a poem about grandmothers and pie
THE EFFORT by Carrie Jones My grandmothers—all dead— Wander through my head in couplets Though I need to make a pie today, For dinner, and it just feels like so…
Young Woman at the Cocktail Party
A poem for Monday!