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 7 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 music video for her new novel at: https://youtu.be/W2HVIc4NrqY

Seized for transport, 1971

Dusted
then draped to meet
The big man—
she had
No power—only
flesh

Drugged
a ripe fig
grape breasts
stuffed in his thick jaws.

After
she became a place.

To rest his heavy head.
That meal over.

Flyers taped on all the lockers
in Hangar 12, JFK airport.

We were buzzing.

CAUTION International Flight Attendants:
Don’t have drinks or dinner or
travel with any person or couples
unknown to you. Flight Attendants
are being drugged then crated
on ships bound for the Mid-East.

Hijackings, Sky Marshalls,
now this.

What’s next?