He puts himself
at the head
of the long table
in front of the
killer whale-sized
window
so that
we have to keep
squinting to see him
talking at every turn
he has no idea
the bright light
all around him is
swallowing him up
whole-heartedly
Susan Shea is a retired school psychologist turned poet. She was born in Brooklyn, NY, and now lives in a forest in Milford, Pennsylvania. Her poems have been published in, or are now forthcoming in Chiron Review, ONE ART, Folio Literary Journal, Green Silk Journal, The Write Launch, RavensPerch, Ekstasis, and others. Recently, she was nominated for Best of the Net by Cosmic Daffodil and for a Pushcart Prize for three poems by The Umbrella Factory Magazine.
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