Carol Townsend Bio: Carol Townsend received a Master of Fine Arts in Applied Design from Ohio University and is currently an associate professor of Design at Buffalo State. She has been selected for spotlight readings at the Chautauqua Writers’ Center Creative Writing Symposia in both 2005 and 2006. Her sabbatical project involves the inscription of her poetry on her sculptural ceramics, a marriage of fire and breath, of form and the word. Poems: Five A.M. The full moon hangs    outside my bedroom       window, spilling an oblong of light    across the carpet.       I test its depths with my big toe.    As I wade back and forth,       the light shimmers and stirs. In the morning    I find damp footprints       leading back to bed. Key Lime Pie (Seeking that mid-Florida taste) We ate our way through Western New York, one slice at a time, letting our waistbands out a notch again and again – “for science”, you would say, winking at me over the menu top… this one, full of air, not tart enough, that one, crust too thick. Yet, regal in their whipped cream crowns, wedge after wedge of translucent gold-green is to be tried - and buttons continue to pop! Aztec Our bed is the evening altar upon which you wield the obsidian knife and my heart, still beating, is lifted from my chest.
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