Bio
Carl Boon lives in Izmir, Turkey, where he teaches courses in American culture and literature at 9 Eylül University. His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Posit, The Maine Review, and Diagram. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Boon recently edited a volume on the sublime in American cultural studies.
Carl Boon
The Girl
The girl is somehow
disgraced I'm there and then
I realize she is my daughter,
grown large in clothes
I cannot recognize, knobs
of flesh at her chest, a foreign
song at her lips,
a pierce, a punch. She dives
into the cold—she dove from me
long ago, her Barbie thoughts
done. There are boys
to laugh at now, pizza,
dance, a language I don't know
where the sea meets the sand
where I still wait, my useless
arms outstretched.