Carol Light was a finalist in Narrative’s Twelfth Annual Poetry Contest. The author of the debut collection Heaven from Steam, she received the 2013 Robert H. Winner award from the Poetry Society of America. She lives with her family in Port Townsend, Washington.

A Likely Story: Anniversary

An iPoem

by Carol Light

Amid persimmons of permission,

amid the shimmer and immersion
among the chaperones of asphodel
from the meadow of the soul,
they sashayed the aisle, pledged
between Siva and Parvati, blessed
among the nodding Buddhas.
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