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<![CDATA[Carlos’s Substack]]>https://carlosdews.substack.comhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MSLh!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbcfba8e5-a13f-497e-bfe5-6408d9e69ac2_688x688.pngCarlos’s Substackhttps://carlosdews.substack.comSubstackFri, 04 Sep 2026 07:33:09 GMT<![CDATA[ALL THE LOVE YOU CAN USE]]>https://carlosdews.substack.com/p/all-the-love-you-can-usehttps://carlosdews.substack.com/p/all-the-love-you-can-useTue, 11 Aug 2026 09:03:11 GMTOnly one and a half months until the official publication date of the volume of Carson McCullers’s letters that I edited for HarperCollins/Mariner Books. Preorders are most welcome. Book tour dates in New York and Georgia coming soon.

ALL THE LOVE YOU CAN USE

]]><![CDATA[Short Story Collection in the Works]]>https://carlosdews.substack.com/p/short-story-collection-in-the-workshttps://carlosdews.substack.com/p/short-story-collection-in-the-worksMon, 15 Jun 2026 11:10:17 GMTI have put together a collection of my short stories and will be pursuing publication of it. This means, at least temporarily, that I should remove from Substack the stories that will be included in the collection. I will continue to post my new work here, including poetry and new stories. Thanks for your support and understanding.

]]><![CDATA[For Mark Strand]]>https://carlosdews.substack.com/p/for-mark-strandhttps://carlosdews.substack.com/p/for-mark-strandFri, 27 Mar 2026 15:07:44 GMTText within this block will maintain its original spacing when published

We all imagine

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He must have fucked

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Like a Wildman.

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Or was it the face?

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Part Redford part Newman.

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Everyone said so.

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Or perhaps the attitude,

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Taller than his tall frame

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His presence crowded any room.

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But most likely

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It was the words.

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Mute on the page

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Alive in the throat

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Lethal in the air

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And sometimes

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Better than the

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Fuck of a Wildman.

]]><![CDATA[Found Poem 2]]>https://carlosdews.substack.com/p/found-poem-2https://carlosdews.substack.com/p/found-poem-2Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:24:54 GMT

I’ve tried

so hard

to tell

myself

that you’re

gone . . .

4/5/04

2 months

Dead

[Written in black marker on green wooden door to crypt of Ayerza family. Written in English. Door with hole in bottom allowing entrance of cats.]

]]><![CDATA[Found Poem 1]]>https://carlosdews.substack.com/p/found-poem-1https://carlosdews.substack.com/p/found-poem-1Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:18:44 GMT24 August 2010

A Polish man

living in Germany

spent five years with a bullet

in the back of his head

having forgotten

he was shot

because he was drunk

when it happened.

Police

in the western city

of Bochum

said doctors had found

a .22-calibre round

after the 35-year-old

asked them to remove

what he thought

was a cyst.

They said

the man recalled

receiving a blow to the head

around midnight

at a New Year's Eve party

"in 2004 or 2005".

It is thought

it might have been

a stray bullet

fired in celebration.

"It may have been

a shot fired up in the air

which entered his head

on the way down,"

a police spokesman told reporters

on Tuesday.

"He told us

he remembered having

a sore head,

but that he wasn't really one

for going to the doctor."

The man,

who has lived in Germany

for several years,

is expected to be released

from hospital later this week.

The bullet,

which was lodged

in his scalp and did

not penetrate his skull,

was removed on Friday.

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11078116

]]><![CDATA[Coming soon]]>https://carlosdews.substack.com/p/coming-soonhttps://carlosdews.substack.com/p/coming-soonSat, 02 Dec 2023 15:35:02 GMTThis is Carlos’s Substack.

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