Issue Fifteen - October 2009

Winter very quick poem

By Susan Slapin

winter very quick poem
out my window
white snow begins, again
another wondering winter blast
when we thought it was over.

pouring down swan feathers
sideways
across a sumi brush
lake
just beneath the belly
of the forever
ocean
just above the roar
of white caps
churning
just above
the comfort of mother earth.

firs tall like eagles perched
pronouncing their upright
vigilance & likely glory.

another hilly chilly history
cave medicine endures
the ancestors survive.

between the myths
the pollyanna fluff
amongst the souls
who remember.

who grow by their very efforts
who glow by their very breath.

evolution,
no one said it would be easy,
but some
one said,
I know.

Susan Slapin is a visual artist, working in printmaking, painting, photography, and also poetry. Susan's paintings are relatively abstract color fields, often referring to the landscape. She spent her early years around her grandfather's Connecticut printing company and later working at The Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts, and Sciences. In both places, the visual world was the dominant feature. Susan attended San Francisco Art Institute and graduated from Marylhurst University. Her work has been exhibited and published, received numerous awards and can be found in private and corporate collections. Susan’s website is www.susanslapin.com.

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