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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