One Poem by Susan Tepper

 

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