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Leaves of Grass
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Emily Dickinson
“If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.”
Emily Dickinson

Mason Carter
“Her breath, a perfume laced with midnight’s bloom,
Her skin, a canvas brushed with lunar gloom.
She lies, a mountain range of flesh and might,
And I, a pilgrim, kneel to kiss her light.
Her neck, a column where the ancients wrote,
I trace with tongue, each vein, each whispered note.”
Mason Carter, Gothic Poems to Love & Liberty: A Collection of Poems on Myths & Broken Hearts

Mason Carter
“It should weigh nothing.
Just wood and air,
a shape meant for sitting,
a space meant for filling.
But somehow, it carries more than I do.
This chair—
your chair—
still leans slightly to the left,
still remembers the way you sat,
one leg tucked under,
hands resting lightly on the arms,
as if you were always about to leave
but never quite did.”
Mason Carter, Saltwater & Smoke: Poems of Almosts, Goodbyes, and What We Leave Behind

Mason Carter
“The mattress has not learned you are gone.
It still bends in the shape of you,
dips where your weight once settled,”
Mason Carter, Saltwater & Smoke: Poems of Almosts, Goodbyes, and What We Leave Behind

Mason Carter
“Yes,” she said. “Truth is what survives verification. Different tongues may call it different names — honesty, fidelity, justice, love — but when you strip language away, what you have left is material behavior. Action. Roots. The rest is perfume and poetry.”
mason carter

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