Call it sex
without really trying
the bottom of your shoe
licking the curb
a straight razor
taking a hike
across your neck.
Worried a long time
you thought
it would be simple
as choosing a paint color.
All options dried up.
Behind the garage
the kids’ inflatable
plastic pool
flattened with rot
& thirty year leaves
half buried.
Ripped corner
hugs the drain pipe—
a pushed aside lover
pitched left—
over
from the year of the flood.
Susan Isla Tepper is a twenty year writer in all genres. Her stage play "Crooked Heart" will be featured in Origin Theatre Company 'May Play Festival', NYC.
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