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She Loses Me in Distances

Posted on 12.13.19 by Alison Cantrell

Poetry by Carolyn Adams

There’s a ghost in my house.
Her smile is an island,
a cosmic separation.
She’s beyond eternity.

Her smile is an island.
I stand close and far, lambent.
She’s beyond eternity,
she’s a dress of fiery folds.

I stand close and far, lambent.
Her choice is my destiny.
She’s a dress of fiery folds.
I want to wear her all the time.

Her choice is my destiny.
She loses me in distances.
I want to wear her all the time.
She roams and roams in me.

She loses me in distances,
a cosmic separation.
She roams and roams in me.
There’s a ghost in my house.


Carolyn Adams‘s poetry and art have been published in Skylark Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, and Forge Journal, among others. She has authored four chapbooks and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, as well as for Sundress Publications’s Best of the Net Anthology. In 2013, she was a finalist for the post of Houston Poet Laureate. Having relocated from Houston, Texas, she now resides in Beaverton, Oregon.

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