Robert Carr

Not Unlike My Father

I dream
in a four-hour radius.
New England coast,

anywhere
between Gloucester
and Belfast.

I live
most of my life
at a distance from

where I am,
imagine they’ll find me
glowing in a room,

Ocean Sunset
playing on the screen.
Disc package torn,

Ambient Calm,

remote cupped
in stiffening fingers—
The sound of waves,

filling far off spaces
I’ve abandoned.

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Robert Carr is the author of Amaranth, published in 2016 by Indolent Books and The Unbuttoned Eye, a full-length 2019 collection from 3: A Taos Press. Among other publications his poetry appears in Crab Orchard Review, Lana Turner Journal, Maine Review, Massachusetts Review and Shenandoah. Selected by the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance, he is the recipient of a 2022 artist residency at Monson Arts. Additional information can be found at robertcarr.org