This poem is taken from PN Review 219, Volume 41 Number 1, September - October 2014.
‘Getting Carter’ and Other Poems
Getting Carter
That men have no souls occurred
to Mike Hodges, who begat
Carter who caught
a train north
for revenge
and found a girl
unsouled. That year, knitting, purl
one, plain one, I took a train,
ignored my waters breaking.
So I dropped a soul into
the world too soon,
dropping like
vest, needles
on the track. Though
hidden variables show
...
That men have no souls occurred
to Mike Hodges, who begat
Carter who caught
a train north
for revenge
and found a girl
unsouled. That year, knitting, purl
one, plain one, I took a train,
ignored my waters breaking.
So I dropped a soul into
the world too soon,
dropping like
vest, needles
on the track. Though
hidden variables show
...
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