Steve Carll

cloudcradled

the pine-draping drops

downrain

in rhythmic precision

are star-flung:

starscatter

tumbled when turning,

the urban emerges

outwailing

its mechanized siren

comes cleaving

then tidily

tidally

recedes

and returns,

cloudshrouded,

cloudcradled

Steve Carll lives with his family in Arcata, California. His third full-length poetry collection, Hypnopompic Diaries (Books One and Two) is currently out from Alien Buddha Press.  Earlier books include Tracheal Centrifuge (Factory School, 2006), Tao Drops, I Change (with Bill Marsh, Subpress, 2004), and several chapbooks. His work has recently appeared in The North Coast Journal, Anvil Tongue, and First Literary Review – East.  From 1988-1998, he edited the literary journal Antenym. Performance video of most of his poetry from 1991 to the present can be found at https://www.youtube.com/@stevecarll/videos.