Poet’s Corner – Salamander
She pries back the lid of an old take-out food container and reveals him, mottled, dark and damp; he hisses. She speaks to him calmly, my [...]
Articles by Susan Moorhead
Poet’s Corner: Snapshot
Snow melting on the buried lawns, only 8:00 a.m. and it’s twenty degrees warmer than yesterday. The black road is [...]
Poet’s Corner: Mr. Grimshaw
My daughter catches toads on summer nights when they fill the street in front of her house. When rain creates rivers of glistening light [...]
Poet’s Corner – Talking
If you couldn’t sleep, chances are you would find my mother in the kitchen at 3 A.M. with a cup of hot chocolate or maybe a cool [...]
Poet’s Corner: The Night Taxi
It’s been snowing for hours and the only people on this street tonight are you and some woman who was also on the train late, and the [...]
Poet’s Corner – Oranges
Oranges, the way my mother ate them. Standing at the sink, eating the slices one by one in rapid succession, in-between chores, determined [...]
The Poet’s Corner – To Do List
Maybe pare it down to essentials, take away what you don’t need, one by one. The clutter of obligations, the bragging rights of being [...]
The Poet’s Corner – Lessons
Lessons The summer yard is held in the gaze of the noon day sun. You squint at fractals of light caught in your lashes. She is [...]
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