Dirt
I stopped reading your poems
and addressing your silence.
Went to the woods and shot
wherever the leaves moved.
Down a path to the next
series of heavy truck tires
chewing the ground
as if they knew my needs—
as dirt unforgiving.
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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