Charlie C. Clark

Charlie Clark’s poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2011, Smartish Pace, West Branch and other journals. He studied poetry at the University of Maryland and lives in Austin, Texas.

Devil In A Perfect World

First, there's the fire.
Then the earth
the fire's stifled by.
In time there's stone
and what's left over.
And what's left over
begins to breathe, begins
to outgrow its meager
jelly-fingered frame.
What's left over begins
to mix among itself, begins
to notice things like its
difference. Difference
is where he comes in.