Flutter

The Dandelion Clock

Be silent child
when you dream
your thoughts are sweet
like dandelions  
they grow beyond
a hollow stalk
and burst into a flower.
What seems a weed
to a passersby
is really all you have
of hope
and when you blow
its pearl globe
you'll live inside
the wind..

~ Carol Lynn Grellas is a Northern California-based writer, where she attended Santa Clara University as an English and Art major. Her first Chapbook: Litany of Finger Prayers  will be released in 2008 from Pudding House Press. Her Second Chapbook, Object of Desire will be forthcoming sometime this year, published by Finishing Line Press. She has had dozens of poems appear in magazines and online journals, including most recently, The Oasis Ezine, The Oasis Online, Las Cruces for Poets & Writers, Munyori Poetry Journal, Words on Paper, The Pregnant Moon Review, Moondance, Dogzplot,Twilight Musings Anthology, The Verse Marauder and A Tender Touch. She has poems forthcoming in, MSU Great Falls Literary Guild: Writings from the River, The Storyteller Magazine, Ken*again, Chanterelle's Notebook, Rattlesnake Review, Kinglyblue, The New Mirage Quarterly and The Hiss Quarterly.  Carol Lynn's first collection of poems, I'm Packing Things for Heaven was published in 2007 by Authorhouse. She lives with her husband, five children and a blind dog named Ginger, who inspire much of her poetry.