Orienteering (Summer, 1994)
By Sarah Carey
“In my 30s, I seek // and scan. A broadcast warns / of thunderstorms on the horizon”
Sarah Carey
Sarah Carey is a graduate of the Florida State University creative writing program. Her poems have appeared recently in Gulf Coast, Five Points, Sugar House Review, Florida Review, Redivider, Atlanta Review and elsewhere. She is the author of two poetry chapbooks, including Accommodations (2019), winner of the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Award. Her debut full-length collection, The Grief Committee Minutes, will be published by Saint Julian Press in September 2024. Visit her at SarahKCarey.com, on Instagram @skcarey1, Bluesky @saycarey1.bsky.social or Twitter/X @SayCarey1.
What We Carry
By Sarah Carey
“Mailboxes open, close / like gates to territory lost, or mouths of birds // our hopeful hands still feed, the gone forever get, / the passages we carry inside.”