Digby Beaumont painting: Dead of Night, 2021, acrylic on paper
Near Midnight
With complete confidence
in a moment he will
enter the murky
rain splashed square
now nearly empty
but for the occasional cat
slinking past.
He will drop the knife
with ease
into the trash bin west
of the gurgling fountain.
Where he’s dropped many
a greasy chip bag.
All perfectly timed
as garbage trucks come
barrelling into sight.
She won’t be remembered
what is there to remember.
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
Digby Beaumont is a self-taught artist whose work has appeared in a number of online journals. Much of his work is with portrait and figure painting. He is also a widely-published writer. His short fiction has appeared in numerous print and online journals and anthologies, including The Best Small Fictions. For a showcase of Digby’s work: https://digbybeaumont.com/
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