Lick Clean
Before we enter
the czar orders
we must lick clean
the doorstep of
our house.
Well kept.
Pots of red flowers
arranged in precise
random order
are points of diversion.
How heavenly
their scent
hiding our strong will
our whiffs of discontent.
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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