Country by Country
The deliverance is solemn.
A surprise.
I expected horns blowing
& bulls running riotous
through the neighbourhood.
But we are far from Spain.
From everywhere.
A landlocked mass
that will remain
until the reckoning:
A final familiar chime
heard country by country.
Here— a quick turn back
to simpler days:
Farm wives beating a gong
calling the men home
to supper.
Susan Tepper is a twenty year writer and the author of nine published books of fiction and poetry. Her most recent are a poetry chap CONFESS (Cervena Barva Press, 2020) and a funky road novel WHAT DRIVES MEN (Wilderness House Press, 2019). Currently, she’s in pre-production of an Off-Broadway Play she wrote and titled ‘The Crooked Heart’ based on artist Jackson Pollock in his later years. www.susantepper.com
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