| The Honey Land Review Spring 2010 Volume 2, Issue 2 |
I she and her my
conflicted creation.
I bountiful letters I
all fricative Z’s.
I a rhizome.
No, a Susie does not walk
with slivers in her pockets.
She doesn’t even have pockets—
I, a line from my best friend’s poem.
She with dimples. She
early drawn fire roasting down
its embers.
She speaks to me daily
of cinders.
I a cornfield fertile and plowed.
I mitochondria.
I make might. I take freight
trains to the center
of a body loaded up
with genius.
I hearth
of a forked-tongue monster.
I licking cream all
I don’t care about my figure.
I swish-swishing
my red dress down the street I
say hi ladies.
I water. I
forked-tongue monster.
She in the light of the hearth,
in profile.
conflicted creation.
I bountiful letters I
all fricative Z’s.
I a rhizome.
No, a Susie does not walk
with slivers in her pockets.
She doesn’t even have pockets—
I, a line from my best friend’s poem.
She with dimples. She
early drawn fire roasting down
its embers.
She speaks to me daily
of cinders.
I a cornfield fertile and plowed.
I mitochondria.
I make might. I take freight
trains to the center
of a body loaded up
with genius.
I hearth
of a forked-tongue monster.
I licking cream all
I don’t care about my figure.
I swish-swishing
my red dress down the street I
say hi ladies.
I water. I
forked-tongue monster.
She in the light of the hearth,
in profile.
| Monster (after Sasha Steensen’s The Stranger at the Gates) Susie Tepper |
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Susie Tepper is pursuing an MFA in Poetry at Colorado State
University in Fort Collins, where she co-runs a developing non-profit
organization, The Strophe Project, which hosts creative writing
workshops for underserved populations. Her work can be found
most recently in Matter Journal and TRNSFR.
University in Fort Collins, where she co-runs a developing non-profit
organization, The Strophe Project, which hosts creative writing
workshops for underserved populations. Her work can be found
most recently in Matter Journal and TRNSFR.
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