In an arroyo wind stirs the heather and flox lifts my nipples brushes my lips and this rush like sun-lighted water spills through a fissure in the land.
Susan Landgraf was awarded an Academy of American Poets’ Laureate award in 2020. Books include The Inspired Poet from Two Sylvias Press (2019), What We Bury Changes the Ground, and a chapbook, Other Voices. More than 400 poems have appeared in journals and magazines, most recently in Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Calyx, The Meadow, Tar River, and others. She served as Poet Laureate of Auburn, Washington, from 2018 to 2020.
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Gorgeous, Susan!
Wha an exquisite poem by Susan Landgraf!