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Carolyn’s
poetry has appeared in The Montserrat Review, Many
Mountains Moving, The Wallace Stevens Journal, The Practice of Peace
and other national literary reviews and anthologies. She has received
Artist Residency fellowships from the Jentel Foundation,
www.jentelarts.org, for her poetry
and for collaborative work with printmaker Cindy Davis. Her poem "The Habit of Time" was
a finalist for the Emily Dickinson Award of The Poetry Society of America.
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The Habit of
Time
What
tense calls us
night after summer night
through the roses and jasmine
spending themselves
in the cool copper air?
Retina, stem, cerebrum —
these tenancies shimmer
and wink out, habits of holding.
Our home is the center
of the bees' winged flame.
It opens the rose, the hip,
the coming dark.
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