Carol Levin – String Poet

2013 String Poet Prize 3^rd Place

You fly and I am you.
Your right hand
locks on your trapeze
mine curls

tight in my pocket.
Like heart beats
from stage right
drums and flutes. You fly
buoyed in blue air
I know how it feels to die.

Stagelight strobes your eyes
flashing cellophane stars
extruding a limb of light
to me. I look out
through your eyes.
Magnetized I am you.

We are a jaguar
swooping. We
levitate silently
from prehistoric tarpits
of ordinary life to dance
a pas-de-deux
and I am you

until you smile
in the bow light
embracing applause.
My hands sting,
widow of feats
of association.

Carol Levin is the author of a full poetry volume, “Stunned By the Velocity” 2012, Pecan Grove Press and chapbooks, “Red Rooms and Others,” Pecan Grove Press 2009, and “Sea Lions Sing Scat,” Finishing Line Press, 2007. Her work has appeared in many journals and anthologies, print and online. She is an Editorial Assistant at Crab Creek Review and teaches The Breathing Lab / Alexander Technique, in Seattle.