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Suzanne Richardson Harvey is a member of the Academy of American Poets. She was an instructor at Tufts University in the Boston area, where she received her doctorate in Elizabethan poetry, specifically that of
Edmund Spenser. For almost two decades she lectured in the English Department at Stanford University. Suzanne was a visiting lecturer in the University of California at Berkeley, and for almost a decade she was an instructor in the publishing program at the University of California at Berkeley Extension. Her poetry has appeared in The Concho River Review, Mannequin Envy, Convergence Journal, Poetalk, Poetry Salzburg Review (Austria), SpeedPoets (Australia), Ascent Aspirations Magazine (Canada), NthPosition (UK), Current Accounts (UK), Poetic Hours (UK), Splizz (Wales), among other venues.
A TIME TO REAP | THE LEDGER | IMPOTENCE
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A TIME TO REAP
My soul is a grenade
That has exploded in my hand
The bones vaporize
And flesh drips
Into a plastic hour glass
That melts like a stubby candle
I was a snow bank
A rocky glacier shrouded
In an obscure and distant cradle
Now I am subliming
In a mist so thin
No hand will grasp it.
THE LEDGER
Fantasy is a spendthrift
It squanders our gifts
Assuring us a daydream’s
Sufficient payment
Hoarders lose,
Harboring too little faith
Too much fear
A blemish mars the praise.
IMPOTENCE
The hungry eyes of old men
Plead for scraps
Fondling the freshly minted apple
Forever in the supermarket
The thirsty eyes of old men
Caress young flesh
With the finger tips
Of memory
The leaden eyes of old men
Solicit invitations
To a séance
On a distant afternoon. |
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