Susan L. Leary

Susan L. Leary is the author of Contraband Paradise (Main Street Rag, 2021) and the chapbook, This Girl, Your Disciple (Finishing Line Press, 2019), which was a finalist for The Heartland Review Press Chapbook Prize and a semi-finalist for the Elyse Wolf Prize. Her most recent poetry has appeared in such places as Cherry Tree, The MacGuffin, and Jet Fuel Review. She teaches Writing Studies at the University of Miami. Visit her at www.susanlleary.com.

Girl House with Epigenetic Effect, or, A Tumult of Flowers

Susan L. Leary October 15, 2022

Through a lit window in the soil, an unseen garden. Ear to the ground & a whimper of blood. The unholy histories of a thousand dresses suddenly clamoring against skull & bone, clamoring with the heft of roses against the eaves. Girl, you bloom just the same, perpetually engaged in a long argument, blade held scrupulously to the neck. Nothing… Read more →