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

planes and anthrax

I can’t find the right pillow
At one point there were eight
Thrown across the bed
Like chairs, beds, bowls of porridge
Too big, too small, too hot, too cold
Pillow after pillow
Nightmare after nightmare
Planes slicing through steel
Bodies fluttering down
The sudden pulverization
Of safety
Gone, all gone
Can’t find the right pillow….