Carol Lynn Grellas

This is Just to Say

- After William Carlos William’s


I cut your hair
while you
were taking
a nap

and when
your snoring was most
grating
and raucous ─

forgive me
it was wicked
so wrong
and so right.



Mirror in my Room

In my dreams, we are only
reflections bounded

by frames. Sometimes I shine
myself into the grayish

glass, only to find an unnamed
vision waiting beyond the other

side. I rub metallic oxide in swirls;
curved motions until a polished

image becomes clear, until I’m able
to press my face against it, equally

aligned, each to each, until there’s
nothing out of reach but the sound

of whimpering foil rustling between
us, until we vanish into broken light

passing through proof of the other.




Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas is a six-time Pushcart nominee and Best of the Net nominee. She has authored eight chapbooks along with her latest full-length collection of poems: Epistemology of an Odd Girl, newly released from March Street Press. She is a recent winner of the Red Ochre Press Chapbook competition for her manuscript Before I Go to Sleep. According to family lore, she is a direct descendent of Robert Louis Stevenson.
 

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Timothy Pilgrim
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