Greening the Bones of Beginnings
i celebrate with coffee, chocolate, zucchini and humus
the pine nuts sweet tinge of turpentine
the presence of absence
which sounds incredibly like absinthe - and perhaps it must -
it isn’t you personally that i miss
it is the after taste of lost imagination
what could have beens,
if only we, and then we didn’t,
now here i am, sitting with the scent of ferries
drop by drop i add our memories to my life
clouding the road just enough
until i see you three
there by the gallant antique shop, as shadows
distilled marauders
you are all dead and still you pillage my living
Suzanne S. Rancourt
Suzanne S. Rancourt, Abenaki/Huron descent, has authored two books: Billboard in the Clouds, Curbstone Press / NU Press 2nd print, received the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas First Book Award. murmurs at the gate, Unsolicited Press, released May 2019. Ms. Rancourt holds degrees in expressive arts therapy, creative writing, and psychology. She is a USMC and Army Veteran. Her works are published /forthcoming in Chachalaca Review, Straw Dog Writers Pandemic Poetry Project, The Ilanot Review, Cathexis, Pif Magazine, Other Worldly Women Press Anthology, Mizmor Anthology, Rat’s Ass Review, Lucky Jefferson, The Wrath-Bearing Tree, Free State Review, Event Magazine, Pangyrus, BigCityLit, Callaloo, Cimarron Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, Ginosko, Tupelo Press Native Voice Anthology, New Reader Magazine. For more info: www.expressive-arts.com
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