Susan Isla Tepper has a Novella coming out shortly from Wilderness House Press. A twenty-year writer, she has penned 14 published books of fiction and poetry and 7 Stage Plays. Honors include 25 Pushcart Prize Nominations, a win in the Francis Ford Copolla Zoetrope Contest for the Novel (2003), Second Place Winner in Story/South Million Writers Award and many more awards. 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.
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CRATERS
By Susan Isla Tepper
You lose a brother
an arm falls off
he injected his
to stay alive
diligent for decades
he died despite
My old driveway
disintegrating
into chunks
Black asphalt crunchy
as the moon’s surface
I try to walk
the even parts
avoiding broken cement
once smoothing the craters
I would like to purchase
a bag of it to swallow
Glenn Bowie is a published poet, lyricist, and photographer from the Boston area. He also owns and operates an elevator company that supplies custom-built elevators for clients from New England to Hollywood. Author of two poetry and photograph collections (Under the Weight of Whispers and Into the Thorns and Honey) on Big Table Publishing, he donates all profits from his books to various charities for the homeless and local animal shelters.
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