Untended
Call the
living the dead
denying a
future
however
blunted.
Well-wishers
encased
in ice
blocks
shipped off
to
places
melting slowly.
Your desire.
To remain
aloof while
we tremble.
Your fantasy
by rights.
Then a fall
in darkness.
In humble
gardens untended
tree roots
pushing up
through the
ground their own.
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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