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.”
Sarah Carey
Sarah Carey is a graduate of the Florida State University creative writing program. Her work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Superstition Review, Valparaiso Review, Barrow Street, Potomac Review, Gravel, Glass Poetry Journal, The Christian Century and elsewhere. Her debut poetry chapbook, The Heart Contracts, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016. Sarah works for the University of Florida College of Veterinary Medicine as director of communications, and lives in Gainesville. Visit her at SarahKCarey.com or on Twitter @SayCarey1.