Vasant 2026 Poems - Bob Carlton
Gift
By Bob Carlton
Here is a gift;
I made it for you.
It is not as abstract
as it first appears.
It is as real as
the place I went to find it.
It can be touched
the same way any
tool or toy can be
by the imagination.
The body of it crystallizes
each time you speak its name.
The sound it makes
is a transformation
of your own voice.
It can bring delight and clarity.
It is yours now
a long trail of wasted seconds...
a long trail of wasted seconds
coils into oblivion
the press of the past
makes strangers of our futures
dream and loss
memory’s constant decay
a vague fear
(of what we do not know)
dances at the edge
of the frames we draw around time
Bob Carlton lives in Leander, Texas,
US. The objectively verifiable facts concerning his life are so
boring as to make them of no interest to anyone but himself. His
poems and stories have been published over the years in numerous
places, most of which no longer exist. His most important contributions
to the history of American letters are a chapbook, The Laughter
of Stones, published by Good SAMARitan Press (which also presumably
no longer exists) and an e-book published by WordTechs Press,
Dim Lanes, Open Space, which is no longer available from the publisher.
His lone Pushcart Prize nomination in 2012 has convinced him of
his international literary fame, and he patiently waits for the
money and Pulitzers to start rolling in. |
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