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Susan Sindall

Poetry

Spring 1989

White Skiff

By Susan Sindall

I see my skiff has slipped its mooring, pulled downriver by the outgoing tide; a rope rag dangles from the buoy. Perhaps she nudges the mudbank downstream where green marshes […]

Poetry

Spring 1989

The Wake

By Susan Sindall

So many people I don’t know at the party for you today. My lips hurt from smiling, stretched against my teeth. All I can do is hug the familiar: your […]