Afternoon Affair

By Susan Landgraf

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.

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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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