At First You Hear the Hum of Invisibility
Susan Brennan
Saturn came so fast
we went down into that cave
not knowing
blue dogs with red hearts
and that break-up that won’t
break away from you
Saturn never lied
just showed us the clouds
that we thought were rings
spinning
and oh christ, the masks
on the wall
Saturn seems so far
until you start to sink
and you stop seeing stars
what a year will scorch into you
like a tick, a stranger bug
who made a debut on your blood
Saturn I can’t shake you
in the skin and cheeks and smile
clocktowers keep us distracted
and the plays all well-acted
I’m gonna put the Beatles on
let the wind let it all be
Susan Brennan is a poet, screenwriter and activist. Her poems can be found in her chapbooks and book, Blue Sirens (Dancing Girl Press), numinous (Finishing Line Press), and Drunken Oasis (Rattapallax Press) and various publications. She curates poetry programming (WanderWord) at Wilco’s Solid Sound Music Festival, MASS MoCA. With a circus-arts company, she co-produced and staged her poem Chromoluminarism about Georges Seurat’s final painting (RGB NYC). She has written film scripts, a one million hit plus award winning web-series, pitched film stories, and co-produced a short film, of which have premiered at Austin, Venice and Tribeca Film Festivals, as well as a screening at MoMA. Being a part of Lotus's Spring Clover Edition has her feeling sassy through and through. See what she’s up to at www.tinycubesofice.com.