One New Poem by Susan Tepper

 

ENTER

a dream’s soft padding

changing—

shadows swim the walls

at close of day.

Did you arrive

just wearing socks?

Quick plunge

to clear your head.

I do recall complaints

about cold feet.

Smashed strawberry-

red on vanilla

fluffed the channels of

my bed comforter.

Yummy.

By then

you had us both.

Torturing you.

Squeezing you side by side.

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