Hiding in the maze of
high green hedgerow
Alice has been discovered
Fraudulent: a great big fraud.
I got my pound of flesh
pulsing right here
between us
on the chipped table.
Smoke it out.
Excluded from dreams
both ways
what was the point of
finally catching up with you.
The small amount of blood still pumping.
Susan Isla Tepper is a twenty years published writer in all genres. Her current project is an Off-Broadway Play on the subject of art and life.