Marc Carver’s most recent poem to appear here was “Unique” (February 2018). 

Web
By Marc Carver

The stationary long playing record
spider web
glistened in the sun.
Not the wet of vinyl
but the captures of the clouds
and golden paint of the sun.

you beauty

I get the feeling
you should tell paintings how beautiful the are
even though they can’t hear you it would be good if they knew someone was watching
looking at them
and it would be easier then to tell strangers of their beauty
even if those women don’t know
I see it
and it burns my heart
that they are not being told enough.