Behind the Arras: A Book of the Unseen

Behind the Arras invites readers into a realm where emotion becomes landscape and memory fades into mist. Carman's narrative poems occupy the liminal spaces between the visible and the invisible, the spoken and the suspected. These are not poems of declaration but of suggestion, each one a door opening onto corridors of feeling too subtle for ordinary speech. The melancholy here is not despair but a refined attunement to the transience of beauty, to the way joy and loss interweave like threads in old tapestries. Carman writes of nature as if it were sentient, of time as if it were tidal, of the human heart as if it contained rooms no one has entered. The title itself is a metaphor: behind the arras, behind the tapestry of everyday perception, lies a world where the unseen moves and breathes. These are poems for readers who understand that the most important truths are often the quietest, and who find in melancholy not sorrow but a kind of illumination.