Genre: Poetry

Two Poems

Elizabeth Mudenyo • Issue 39 <a href="http://carte-blanche.org/issues/issue-39/">Summer 2020</a>

I thought I was ready,
I woke up from a dream once with a fervour and your name in my mouth. The week where I saw your absence at a party. Felt your presence at a mixer and thought. The signs were obvious. And all year I had been saying. I am accepting signs. From the universe. And. Intention was the name of the game. Read more →

A Note from the Poetry Editors

carte blanche • Issue 38 Winter 2020   <img class="aligncenter wp-image-12018 size-full" src="http://carte-blanche.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/01_InvisibleVisible_Slider-1.png" alt="01_InvisibleVisible_Slider (1)" width="1416" height="554" />  

This issue’s theme on Visibility/Invisibility manifests in the poetry section through acts of attention, introspection, and entropy. In both commanding and haunting language, they demonstrate what exceeds boundaries, whether through the threshold of the body, pain, the human form, or vision. Through their work, these poets intimately structure the relationship between perceiving and visibility, where such relationship is not always unilateral. Read more →

Fig. 1 and Fig. 5

Alex Allen • Issue 38 Winter 2020   <img class="aligncenter wp-image-12018 size-full" src="http://carte-blanche.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/01_InvisibleVisible_Slider-1.png" alt="01_InvisibleVisible_Slider (1)" width="1416" height="554" />  

bloodwork is normal
bloodwork is normal
bloodwork is normal Read more →

Two Poems

Nicole Raziya Fong • Issue 38 Winter 2020   <img class="aligncenter wp-image-12018 size-full" src="http://carte-blanche.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/01_InvisibleVisible_Slider-1.png" alt="01_InvisibleVisible_Slider (1)" width="1416" height="554" />  

EVEN AFTERWARDS, AS WIND DISTINCTLY INTERSECTED MY GAZE

EVEN AFTERWARDS, AS MY GAZE ENCOUNTERED ITSELF
IN A FILAMENT OF THE WIND’S SUGGESTION

EVEN AFTERWARDS, MY ABSCONDING GAZE Read more →