Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Susan Isla Tepper

Photo by Phoebe Wilcox

Color Bleeding


Who could deliver 

on such a promise

made at a different 

time and place


green things 

sprouting everywhere


leaves and stems 

wiggling up through 

a crack in rock

in many rocks 

so many plants


color bleeding into color.


You left me behind 

mind rot has infected you

in that godforsaken place

where nothing grows.


The pictures you send

send me to my bed shivering.


You say it calls to you

that dark landscape--

urging you 

whispering:

Make this place home. 


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