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Susan Tepper is the author of nine published books. Her most recent is a poetry chapbook Confess (Cervena Barva Press, 2020) and a road novel What Drives Men (Wilderness House Press, 2019). The recipient of many awards and honors, Tepper is a native New Yorker. www.susantepper.com

Landfill

Susan Tepper

It came from golden and sorrow
no simple way to split this pie.
Nature jumped in and took charge;
enough spoilage; Mother Nature
will teach the hard lessons,
no smack on the ass for us,
but death on the grand scale.
Still, many aware of her wrath
refuse to comply as more die
alone, by the truck load, gasping,
jumping off cruise ships, piled
in fields stretching beyond
what the eye can see.
Becoming our new landfill: bones.

— Susan Tepper

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