Kent MacCarter
‘It is an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.’ – Silent Spring
lost, Rachel Louise Carson
squinched a face of fish
a young woman the other
day asked
me are there any
states in America
that have
a Maccas? yo
I hear bagpipes? [convincingly
pulling off a Utah]
I asked
yes
she grilled tattooed out upon the oval
tomato of a dusk
the outside tenor drone
the both of us
agitants our sudds of spit
speedometres of what’s bitesize
a Christmastime of pesticide
Kent MacCarter is a writer and editor in Castlemaine, with his wife and son. He’s the author of three poetry collections – In the Hungry Middle of Here (Transit Lounge, 2009), Ribosome Spreadsheet (Picaro, 2011) and Sputnik’s Cousin (Transit Lounge, 2014). He is also editor of Joyful Strains: Making Australia Home (Affirm Press, 2013), a non-fiction collection of diasporic memoir. MacCarter is active in Melbourne PEN. He is Managing Editor of Cordite Poetry Review.
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