Photography © Keith Pearson
Local or Southern
The windows wood frames
rotting—
we’ve yet to scrape
or slap on new paint
So busy we are
fighting the world and
each other over the most—
even peaches have become
an issue:
local or southern?
Not settled, nothing settled
the market basket stays empty
of them.
I can only slump in my own
disrepair in a crooked yard chair
overtaken
by all this heat.
Today when I step outside
early—holding my coffee
I see your attempt:
Bright red geraniums freshly bursting
out of the junk in the old window box.
Susan Isla Tepper presented her darkly comic play CLANDESTINE in an Equity Premiere Staged-reading, hosted by SHOPTALK, on June 10 at EAG Guild Hall Theatre, NYC. Her latest Novel “Hair of a Fallen Angel” was published by Spuyten Duyvil Books. A twenty-year writer, she’s written 12 published 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 latest novel can be found here.
Keith Pearson works in the math department of a high school in southern New Hampshire. He is a published poet and amateur wanderer.