Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Skulls In Winter by Susan Isla Tepper


The stop and start and bend

each corrosive twilight

 

People in this place

are inclined to forgive:

Skulls from stray dogs and

foxes unearthed 

make for good ashtrays and

catchy conversation

on the bars and table tops

 

Where people drink ‘til their eyes

roll back in their skull.

 

My father, who liked his pint

or three used to remark 

about the beauty in the upward climb

on the road back to my house

after an evening.

 

Gone now, I drive it alone—

 

The low mountain gazing down

brownish in the street lamps

seems abandoned 

to the hawkish winter.



Susan Isla Tepper is a twenty year writer in all genres. Her most recent book, a Novel titled Hair Of A Fallen Angel, came out in the fall from Spuyten Duyvil Books, NYC. Tepper has also written 7 stage plays. Her third play titled EVA & ADAMO will present at The Tank, NYC, early fall. www.susantepper.com


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