Allergic to SanityWhen mast cell activation causes madness, Allergic to Sanity pulls skeletons out of the closet to examine dislocations of reality.2024
Carter Hemion
Carter Hemion (they/it/he) is a Pacific Northwest-based poet and author to Allergic to Sanity from Bottlecap Press. They document life through verse and embrace being a queer, mad creator and rare disease advocate.
WA, United States
Chapbooks
Selected work (11 publication)
Salt Shaker"Cylinder slides in sausage fingers;
I wait on you every meal.
From lead to feather I lessen my load—
There is not a lump I will conceal."
poetry
salt
When We Were MadeWhen we were made from clay,
Our lax bodies shrines to something greater,
Some ancestors' tissues held velvety:
Smooth, soft, like wet earth and silk.
The B’K Vol. 15, Issue 3
poetry
disability
ancestors
Creation
disability pride
constellation tattoo"Instead I asked if ever you had tracked / How many twinkling stars litter the sky / While knowing dawn will come before the fact"
p. 20
poetry
love
poem
stars
sonnet
stargazing
Shakespearean sonnet
green thumb"When we met in the woods, / You did not shake my hand."
p. 19
poetry
love
outdoors
poem
dirt
PNW