The Third Time By Susan Isla Tepper

After the blooming 

forsythia went green 

then a month later

back to yellow

The third time

I stopped counting:

Is this a special 

November gift 

from nature 

or some anomaly.

Herman, my Maine Coon

is buried under there

some twenty years.

To make his place

I shoveled for hours

large heavy rocks 

in almost every shovel of dirt.

I cried the whole time.

As though he were resisting.

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