ABSTRACTIONS by Susan Isla Tepper

for Simon Perchik (1923 – 2022)

While you lay dying

my left ear bled

abstractions 

streaking the pillow    

— you’d unearth a poem

were you able

Day after I woke to 

red filling the right eye

Both sloshed its river.

But when the limb 

entwined  

crashed down 

what was left to feed the other.

Susan Isla Tepper is a twenty years published writer in all genres.  Her current project is an Off-Broadway Play on the subject of art and life.