Michael J Carter: Someone Else

Photo: Joanna C. Valente

SELECTIVE SERVICE


Every touch
from him
was a touch
I couldn't get
from someone
else
a touch
I hated
wanting
and getting
from him.

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Michael J Carter is a poet and clinical social worker who lives and works in Connecticut. A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College he holds an MFA from Vermont College and an MSW from Smith. Poems of his have appeared in such journals as Boulevard, Ploughshares, Provincetown Arts Magazine, Western Humanities Review among many others. He lives with his two hounds and spends his time swimming and knitting.