Carte Blanche

First published in True Colour (Redmond, Washington: City of Redmond, 2014).



white elephant sale—

that Christmas sweater

unsold again


telling the telemarketer

a little white lie


with bored kids

at the county museum—

a white flag under glass


sweet sixteen—

carte blanche

at the department store


whiteout

the crow’s eye


ashes scattered—

no white

in the sunset