Durell Carter is a writer and a teacher who lives in Oklahoma. He graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma with a graduate degree in English. He currently serves as director of education for Red Dirty Poetry. Find his work in Posit, Viewless Wings, and Drunk Monkeys.
The check engine light tangerines through the dashboard glass like the ignore me light I slap my roof to when I choose to challenge the challenger that never grows too old for us. You can’t see any pale smoke sewer snaking itself out of the dehydrated heart of your road eater that spits out nothing but hot air propelled by… Read more →
You want my death to be as American as a number one from McDonald’s,and as civil as Chris Rock watching white-men detonate the N-Bomb in front of him.You want my flowers dipped in bleach before they lay them on my grave,along with the last name my father gave me when he was bored one day in Virginia.You want my ashes… Read more →