“Before the Darkness” © Digby Beaumont

 

Languorous

Through towering trees a forest
bent for my satisfaction:
The gods of good and evil
could not compete with
the languorous god
who, with beckoning finger,
crouched around every bend.
Entrapment the game
but I was too clever
for fickle fingers
silly smiles and transitory gifts:
grapes in a pile that glistened.

 

Susan Isla Tepper is a twenty-year writer and the author of 11 published books of fiction and poetry and two stage plays. Her play The Crooked Heart concerning artist Jackson Pollock in his later years premiered on October 25, 2022 at the Irish Repertory Theatre in NYC. Tepper’s new Novel satire titled Office has been released by Wilderness House Press.

Digby Beaumont is an award-winning artist. His work has been published extensively in collaboration with writers of fiction, poetry and music. He works on portraits, still lifes, landscapes and a series of drawings on the theme of what it is to be human. He works with acrylic paint, mostly on canvas board, pen and ink on paper and mixed media. Digby became a professional artist in 2021. He is also a widely published writer.