inside
the wax widens
drips around the candle
illuminates your face in a soft light.
i trust you.
there is a clock.
the small hand
stops telling time.
outside
is a bare piece of paper
waiting…
Holli Terrell-Cavalluzzi lives in Wilmington North Carolina where she has made a home by the coast. She spends her days writing poetry and prose which started in graduate school somewhere between teaching yoga and attending classes.
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