Susan Isla Tepper has a Novella just out from Wilderness House Press titled GIRL UPSIDE DOWN. Currently it is only available from the author direct.  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 more. Her stage 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.
http://www.susantepper.com

Blue Trees

By Susan Isla Tepper

Have you ever noticed
while you stared
everything coming apart

and each time 
you try filling in
some vibrant color

a hoax—
the lines keep shifting
 
Clouds moving slow
to speed up

Those kinds of days
 
blue trees
sun in sun out
 
a poke at happiness
that doesn’t gel—
 
Have you joined ranks
with the criminally insane
 
you could try calling it
a bad hair day
 
Or— look 
the dictator has on lipstick
a smear left
curving the rim of the glass

Glenn Bowie is a published poet, lyricist, musician 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.