Fluttering out of the scant trees
dotting city sidewalks
you watch the men falling
like birds from
famine and disease
hunkered in piles
they could be leaves
colorful in disarray.
You know best to step around
continuing down the street
past this some kind of
out of synch madness.
The season of leaves
not quite upon us.
Yet so much death in the streets.
Another hellish year
why should anything be spared.
Susan Isla Tepper is a twenty year writer in all genres. Her most recent book, a Novel titled Hair Of A Fallen Angel, came out in the fall from Spuyten Duyvil Books, NYC. Tepper has also written 7 stage plays. Her third play titled EVA & ADAMO will present at The Tank, NYC, early fall. www.susantepper.com
