One Poem by Susan Tepper with Art by Digby Beaumont

 

                            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/