Special FeaturerbdJuly 06, 2021Suzanne Richardson, poetry, poet of the month

Suzanne Richardson: July 2021 Poet of the Month

Special FeaturerbdJuly 06, 2021Suzanne Richardson, poetry, poet of the month

He Tried to Enter Me, Someone/Something is Already There

I don’t remember letting anything in?

I try

to open

for him,

seraphic

hinge but

scallop osseous

process pearl

raw

thumping

clumps

of blood ruby

block

the way. For

punishment

I wear a

wool dress,

walk in circles

in the formal

garden. Heat

treated. Sun

Wash. Cleansing

behind

a rag bush

I reach inside

my fleur-de-

lips. My O ocean,

Mollusca,

growing

inside me? Or

am I growing

around it? The

triple-tiered

porcelain

pavilion

fountain sputters

as I tamp

with my fingers.

Past sunset

striated

sulcus vulva,

inside my

cavern

calculous.

Superdeep diamonds.

Did he empty the sea

inside me?

No, sadness

fills the body

with a gemstone. Forming

in the body’s mantle.

amethyst in

my amaryllis:

despair’s

black pear

in my middle.

Black agate

semiprecious

sorrow

precious

me.

Suzanne Richardson earned her M.F.A. in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the University of New Mexico. She currently lives in Utica, New York where she's an Assistant Professor of English at Utica College. She is the writer of Three Things @nocontactmag and more about Suzanne and her writing can be found here: https://www-suzannerichardsonwrites.tumblr.com/ and here: @oozannesay

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