Judith Waller Carroll
No account drifter
snaps off our mothers' tongues
like sheets on a line.
A boy named Joe.
He rode in on the Greyhound.
He stays at the boarding house
just off Main.
We flutter like moths
to the broad steps of the porch
hoping for a glimpse
of the world.
Bio
Judith Waller Carroll grew up in a small town in Montana and lived for many years in the San Francisco area, where she worked as a writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Heron Tree, Naugatuck River Review, Umbrella, Stone's Throw Magazine, several anthologies, on the international radio program, Tales from the South, and has been nominated for the Best of the Net. Awards include the 2010 Carducci Poetry Prize from Tallahassee Writers' Association. Her chapbook, Walking in Early September, is available from Finishing Line Press. She and her husband, the novelist Jerry Jay Carroll, live in the Ouachita Mountains of Central Arkansas with an aging Parson Russell terrier and a cat named Picasso.