Bio
Carter Vance is a writer and poet originally from Cobourg, Ontario, Canada currently resident in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada. His work has appeared in such publications as The Smart Set, Contemporary Verse 2 and Plentitude, amongst others. His debut novel, Smaller Animals, is now available from Roundfire Books.
Carter Vance
Sand Castles
When I was young I drew
sculptures on the beach,
holding tight against reckoning
waves,
In bold ignorance of all to come.
They stood, loom weaving a
hope some day they would
come true:
The fantastic scenes of monsters
slain under bed clothes before
frights could reach me
sleeping sound,
Of lovers conquering the grand
canyons that tore them asunder,
heedless the cost in gold,
in bloody bruise.