Diligent Dreaming
Susan Brennan
I felt like a teenager
seeing you again
but for the first time
in this way
walking towards me
the forest an orange
blaze behind you
swollen with autumn's crush
were you angry?
I don't know but some
passion was moving you
would you open your mouth
to sing or howl?
the hair on your face
and head curling
Bacchanal
I remember organizing
the constellations
in notebooks
and I could never remember
red from blue from white
but I told myself
there are two types of stars
ones that sparkle
patterns in the lapis night
and the ones you don't see
that pull you away
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.