Time for choice is over
when the sweep of Iris
droop in the field
a brittle winter then
came a drowning spring
Similarity—
the order of
things letting go—
All day, in and out
under covers, bottle
stuck in the crook of
arm, it’s not
a matter of suspension,
the craving Iris
seeking mulch folds inward,
closer to the ground
Susan Tepper is the author of eight published books of fiction and poetry. Her most recent book just out in June is a road novel titled “What Drives Men.” It was shortlisted at American Book Fest Best Book Awards. Other honors and awards include eighteen Pushcart Nominations, a Pulitzer Prize Nomination for the novel “What May Have Been” (Cervena Barva Press, and currently being adapted for the stage), NPR’s Selected Shorts Series, Second Place Winner in Story/South Million Writers Award, Best Story of 17 Years of Vestal Review, Shortlisted 7th in the Zoetrope Novel Contest (2003), Best of the Net and more. Tepper is a native New Yorker.
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