"I know noble accents
And lucid, inescapable rhythms"
----Wallace Stevens
"Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbird"
Carol Lynn Grellas
Carol Lynn Grellas is a Northern California-based writer. She attended Santa Clara University where she was an English and Art major. Her Chapbook: Litany of Finger Prayers will be released in 2008 from Pudding House Press. She has had dozens of poems appear in magazines and online journals, including most recently, The Oasis Ezine, The Oasis Online, Las Cruces for Poets & Writers, Munyori Poetry Journal, Words on Paper, The Pregnant Moon Review Moondance, Dogzplot,Twilight Musings Anthology, The Verse Marauder and A Tender Touch. She has poems forthcoming in MSU Great Falls Literary Guild: Writings from the River, The Storyteller Magazine, Ken*again, Chanterelle's Notebook, Rattlesnake Review and The New Mirage Quarterly. Carol Lynn's first book of poetry I'm Packing Things for Heaven was published in 2007 by Authorhouse. She lives with her husband, five children and a blind dog named Ginger, who inspire much of her poetry.
Carol Lynn Grellas
Note on a Windowsill
Beloved when you find the petal’s dew
Assuming blossoms seeped the
evening’s rain
In sinful hours of midnight it was you
Who swathed
my mind with promises of pain,
Where once I bathed in moonlight for you here
My gown of lace tied
wrapped with a chord of braid
Enveloped in the mist and beckoned near
A nightingale began to serenade
He sang of your betrayal unto me
Unfaithfulness with one you will
deny
My darling every watermark you see
You name a bloodless
flower, it was I
Who wrote these words of love upon the sill
My veins supplied the
ink, my heart the quill.
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