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Carolyn Adams

Carolyn Adams

Carolyn Adams’ poetry and art have been published in numerous journals, including Skylark Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, and Forge Journal. She is author of four chapbooks, and has been nominated for a Pushcart prize. In 2013, she was a finalist for the post of Houston Poet Laureate. She lives in Houston, Texas as part of a wonderful net of writers dispersed across the city. They're her family as well as her friends.

PoetryJuly 19, 2016

Where You’re Going

By Carolyn Adams

Your shambling walk becomes a sacrament I pray to every morning. And when you wake, I see you there, in my imagination, pulling on…

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