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Susan Spear


Rattled

She opened her mouth
and the truth fell out

A thud, a crack,
no getting it back

Syllables in flight,
lambent white

A naked word,
shocking, when heard

Skin quivered,
a spine shivered

The feral truth,
with a mind of its own

Rattled her brains
and shook her bones




Participial

Variations on a line by Joslyn Green

Loving
matters
more
than
being
(loved,

loved,
loving)
Being
matters
less than
more…

more
loved
than
loving
Matters
being

<equal>
being
more
matters
(loved,
loving)
than…

more than
being
Loving
more
Love
matters,

matters
than…
loved:
Being
more
loving

Loving matters
more than
being loved.


































AUTHOR BIO

Susan Spear teaches poetry and creative writing at Colorado Christian University in Lakewood, Colorado. She earned an MFA in poetry from Western Colorado State University in Gunnison, and she now serves as managing editor of Think, a journal of poetry, criticism, and book reviews housed at Western. Her poems have appeared in Academic Questions, The Lyric, Raintown Review, Relief, Mezzo Cammin and other on-line and print journals.

POETRY CONTRIBUTORS

Kim Bridgford
Deborah Bruce
Melissa Garcia Criscuolo
Barbara Crooker
Elise Hempel
Katherine Hoerth
Sujata Iyengar
Karen Kelsay
Siham Karami
Miriam Kotzin
Jean L. Kreiling
Luann Landon
Jenna Le (Featured Poet)
Lesléa Newman
Angela O'Donnell
Renée M. Schell
Susan Spear
Rebecca Starks
Cara Valle
Marilyn Westfall
Joyce Wilson
Marly Youmans

NEWS

The two most recent additions to The Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline are Elizabeth Barrett Browning by Eileen R. Kinch and Marceline Desbordes-Valmore by Anna M. Evans.

Wendy Videlock is the recipient of the 2016 Mezzo Cammin Scholarship to the Poetry by the Sea conference.

FEATURED ARTIST
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ARCHIVES
LINKS
POETRY
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String Poet
Valparaiso Poetry Review
Verse Daily
Women's Poetry Listserv
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CONFERENCES
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Poetry by the Sea
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BOOKS
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