Monday, July 18, 2022

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.


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