Carol Allis Poetry

The poems

ordinary poets
- ordinary poets
- waitress
- desk clerk
- chaplain
- cable guy
- for sale
- luck
- to the rescue
- personals ad
- warrior
- fashionista
- valentine
- normal
- sean and teresa
- fame
- prepared
- caste
- soldier
- PR girls do pepper jelly
- chick place
- in Hovland
outrage
- baja
- priorities
- illusion
- mobile home
- tour
- mother
- hair
- hurricane
- loser
- Red Lake
- privilege
- poor
- weapons of mass destruction
- Lamborghini
- fur
- temple
- American
- Sedona
- values
- why they didn't leave
- efficiency
- shelter
- lounge chair
love
- marriage
- old marriage
- vulnerable
- terrarium
- caretaker
- material things
- laundry
- rose
- that's all, folks
- lost and found
- daybreak
- eHarmony
- envy
- love song
- reunion
- beds and ladders
- prom
- farewell
- incurable
- reset
- vow
family
thinking too much
- magic act
- choices
- logic
- sorting
- grudge
- doubt
- caste
- film
- aging
- Shady Pines
- alone
- getting ready
- hedgehog
- clarity
- lonesome
- planes and anthrax
hurting
- paper cuts
- collateral damage
- conflict
- forest fire
- lights out
- wounds
- breakup
- commitment
- camouflage
- knives
- unfaithful
hooked
- hooked
- adversary
- monkey
- addicts and angels
- the First Step
- serenity prayer
- iceberg
- sober
- enabler
- hope
loss
- grief
- monsters
- autopsy
- ambush
- bruise
- giving back the daisies
- checkout
- bad check
- talking with death
- condolences
- closure
- full post
- spring
- jacket
- resurrection
- first year
- passage
- Michael
- uncharted
- lightness of being
respite
reflections
the light side

Made by Teresa Marrin
© 2010-2012

autopsy

Just as you were cut open
That’s how I feel sometimes
What is the saying
“Motherhood is to decide forever
To have your heart
Go walking around outside your body” *
How I work on believing
That you go on
But sometimes that is too ethereal
I loved the shell
And I miss the body
You brought your soul in
It comforts me to think
It was too small a container
To hold the essence of you
I must keep looking for you
In a different sphere
A place where there is nothing but
The heart
Walking around outside the body