CAROL LYNN STEVENSON GRELLAS // Rattle
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Rattle
Light on her feet, she walked in kimonos hemmed with gold eyelashes sweeping highlighted cheeks. One lifetime isn’t enough for a girl with blossoms in her heart. No days were as worthy as the midnight hour filled with opium and the scent of sex between her lips. Kathy I can almost see you now, your face against the backdrop of sky your eyes dazed from the overdose hands upturned ready for your next unstoppable binge, a spattering of stars around you and the infinite dark . |
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 and according to family lore she is a direct descendent of Robert Louis Stevenson.
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