Articles
Bill Carpenter is working on a long collection of his poetry called Templates which "explores universal patterns using the poet's toolbox of language, metaphor and simile. It is an effort to empathically understand and connect our world."
His poetry has appeared in such journals as Runes, Blueline, Chest, Balancing the Tides, July Literary Press and the RI Writer’s Circle Anthology, He’s a member of the Ocean State Poets whose mission is to bring poetry and give voice to divergent populations, such as prisoners and children at risk.
Bill has included some of his shorter, origami-friendly poems in the Selections from Templates.
► Bill's Origami micro-chapbooks & selected poems are available below.
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Origami Micro-Chapbook |
Selected Poem(s) |
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Cover artwork by Bill Carpenter
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Creation Myth - Whales
I. Gray Whale
She rises
with a “humph” a misty exhalation over Magdalena Bay. Her back encrusted with barnacles and amphipods as if carrying a dark arc of sky full of star clusters and dust, nebulae and contrails, planets and moons, an untold creation myth, a seafaring galaxy. Her long spine ridged with knuckles, this storied sea serpent or “devil fish” has come to calve in sheltered lagoons. Surfacing and submerging, lifting her fluke, and plunging into the deep leaving a massive oval footprint, a black hole in her wake.
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Bill Carpenter © 2011
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Cover artwork by Bill Carpenter
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Ode to the Wind
Oh, to be the wind,
cling to you like rain,
run invisible fingers through your hair,
sculpt your cotton dress
to your contours like Venus,
run away with your sweet perfume
tossing it like petals in my wake.
To billow your skirts,
animate your breath with my spirit
flowing in your veins as life;
to cling, caress
and kiss
your moist mouth dry.
Oh, to be the wind
and take you as my lover.
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Bill Carpenter © 2010
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