Jared Carter’s Darkened Rooms of Summer was the first book selected for the Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry Series and was published in 2014 by the University of Nebraska Press. Carter lives in Indiana.
Surrender
No longer caught up by the things
of time, she prays –
And as the loosened dove, that brings
the leaf arrayed
With silver to the outstretched hand
of Noah, comes
At last to rest within a band
of light and, done
With wandering, begins to fold
its wings, and sleep –
She enters silence that will hold
against the deep.
Clementine Unbound 