Calvin Ross Carl

Artist, designer, and occasional poem writer. A line a day. Or maybe more. Or maybe a lot less.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

I saw the sun fall
on the southside of all things.
God’s ray dragged its legs
beyond the huts,
where I found the place
I couldn’t find.

Cougars and ticks
watched me wander.
I’m a buffet of
innards,
blood cocktail,
and navel gazing.

We all want
a body to rest in.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

Mom placed
a worry stone
into the pit of my
belly.

She said
happy Mother’s day,
knowing the stone was a gift
and so was the
worry.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

Things are getting done

slower.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

We finally took down
our protest signs.
Not because

we won.

Because our wish
became a rock,
never crushed
into a wedding band.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

Every moon we are trapped
as ourselves for another day.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

Your sweat dripped
through a Hane’s Beefy Tee
with a burning church on the back.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

I’m not certain
if the Earth spins,
but it smells of
smoke and magma
and grandma’s
hand-cut pasta.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

The family of possums
sleeps in the Volkswagen engine.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

You love like a tongue
saying orange
in a new language.

You tie your horse
to a one-way rocket
targeting insurgents.

You guide your slugs
with an ancient flute
to the salt mines.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

Profiting off
of education
is evil.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

A person saying the word
orange
when they’ve never said
a word before.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

War criminal
accuses
war criminal
of being
war criminal.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

A forest of trees
become logs
then lumber
then the front door
of our last house.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

I will raise a building
that rots a thousand years,
leaving my ancestors thirsty
for its ancient secrets.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

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[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

Your whisper was wet
with the glacial pace of hunger
and a subterranean river.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

I am an owl
and you are a magician
with an odd desire
for exotic animals.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

A stranger said
I am one to admire,
but reserved and uptight.
So I dreamt of
setting my fingers afire,
and putting out their light.

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

Blinking roadside display:
Traffic Death
March 3, 2022
Use Caution

[Calvin Ross Carl @calvinrosscarl]

What if I write you a poem
in the hot pink sand,

of the Martian sea,

with the severed digit
of a dying comrade.