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Walking ALone

​​​The
woods
were sweet
and of no
season. In early
dark a ranger, no threat to me.
I carried water and three letters under the moon.
An empty clearing dense with amber light, smell of loam:
not a relief—just a place made
for rest. I don’t need
to tell you
this was
a
dream.
Picture
Asher Brown Durand. In the Woods, 1885. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Carolyn Oliver is the author of Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (University of Utah Press, forthcoming 2022), selected by Matthew Olzmann for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize. Carolyn’s poems appear in The Massachusetts Review, Indiana Review, Cincinnati Review, Radar Poetry, Shenandoah, Beloit Poetry Journal, 32 Poems, Southern Indiana Review, Cherry Tree, Plume, DIALOGIST, and elsewhere. Carolyn is the winner of the E. E. Cummings Prize from the NEPC, the Goldstein Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Writer’s Block Prize in Poetry. Carolyn lives in Massachusetts with her family. Her website is carolynoliver.net.
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