Susan Isla Tepper has a new Novel just out titled “Hair of a Fallen Angel” from Spuyten Duyvil Books, NYC. A twenty-year writer, she’s authored 12 books of fiction and poetry and 5 stage plays. Honors include 21 Pushcart Prize Nominations. Her play ‘The Crooked Heart’ concerning artist Jackson Pollock premiered on October 25, 2022 at the Irish Repertory Theatre in NYC. Adapted from an earlier novel, it was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Susan is a Brand Ambassador for The Galway Review. A YouTube video for her new novel: https://youtu.be/W2HVIc4NrqY
SQUEEZED IN a poem
By Susan Isla Tepper
they are festive
that goes a long way
if you compute
the number of windows
folks look out
the number who live
behind those windows
From a doorway
shivering I can see across
to some windows
lit candles &
trees showing off
their green—
If only I could find
an unlocked first floor
window—
then slip inside
curl up
Other windows wreaths
of fluffy branches
the people behind the glass
bound to be sipping bubbly
My mood turning cloudy
out here in the flailing winds
even the mice have protective walls
Mice running
building after building
street beyond street
‘Til this city
ground in grit
for some folks begins to glimmer
Judith A. Lawrence was the editor/publisher of Lilly Press and River Poets Journal for several decades. She is also a prolific painter, and writer of fiction, memoir, and poetry. Originally from Philadelphia, PA, she now resides in Florida. She has published five chapbooks of poems, written a volume of short stories, and a recent memoir titled “Point of Comfort.” She is currently completing a murder/mystery novel and a book of short poems containing her watercolors, under her nom de plume Juniper Rue.
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