A Year

settles on your shoulders           to

weep what bones won’t hear                                     to sing

            grim-lit and groovy                                         to dance

            a grief                  subdued

  

  

                                          descend the stairs

like baby hair                 intransigent as snow

that froze time                              on the sharp blades of your back

Author of the article

Camille Carter is a writer, poet, educator, and world traveler. A recent recipient of the Hackney Literary Award for Poetry, she teaches in the Liberal Arts program at Aaniiih Nakoda College on the Fort Belknap Reservation in Harlem, Montana. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, SWWIM, The American Poetry Review, Hotel Amerika, The MacGuffin, and Broad River Review.