When last read on these pages, Texan Clay Carpenter was giving his take on resolutions (Poems and Bills). Before that he gave us a Pushcart Prize nominated slice of life (Strawberry). So what’s he got today? Musings on the interconnected. Thoughts for our times.
Bank
By Clay Carpenter
calculated cool and crime-scene clean
lighting grins collars modulated under
camera’s loving eye numbers dipped
in bleach dispensed with tongs
key turns fan belt squeals radio screams a
suicide bomber’s handiwork shakes the car
doctor says you’ve got the wrong gene
pull into this Green Zone and breathe
