Susan Isla Tepper is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and playwright. The author of ten published books, her current projects are two plays in production titled ‘Crooked Heart’ and ‘Lady In A Post Box’. A Novel titled ‘Hair of a Fallen Angel’ will be out later this year. Tepper’s work has been published worldwide for over twenty years. http://www.susantepper.com

Frenzy

By Susan Isla Tepper

You turn a corner
and darkness
heavy with sleep
pummels the body’s
choruses of deliverance:
pipe organs, screams,
bells—
You rip out your heart,
look down
examine the contents.
Could it simply
be the birds
gone batty / a frenzy
smashing against the glass.

Bridget Seley-Galway artist/poet Bridget received BFA and a degree in Art Education at UMass Amherst.
Her collection of poems and images “What Moments Yield” has been published by Ibbetson Press, and has been included in the following permanent collections: N.Y.C Poets House, State University of Buffalo collections, Umass Amherst W.EB Du Bois Library, and the Truro Library Cape Cod.
Her poems have been published in Provincetown Magazine’s Poetry Corner, Wilderness House Literary Review, Poetry Porch, Ibbetson Press, and Bagel with the Bards anthologies, to name a few.
Her art has been exhibited throughout New England, and reviewed in several publications, including Artist Magazine and Cape Arts. Her paintings have been selected for the covers of Bagel with Bards, Ibbetson Press, and individual poet publications.
She is currently the Arts Editor/Curator for the Wilderness House Literary Review.