Susan Landgraf
After A Bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon
We lose weeks, oaths
Despair turns down an icy road to Hawaii
We win the keys to Casablanca
We see Hawaii and beautiful bodies
luminous grape-colored
possibilities
we discover
yes, we discover
nothing is forbidden
until the next morning.
Susan Landgraf is the author of What We Bury Changes the Ground (Tebot Bach, 2017), The Inspired Poet (Two Sylvias Press, 2019), and other books. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Poet Lore, Margie, Nimrod, Calyx, and other journals. A former journalist and teacher she is the Poet Laureate of Auburn, Washington.
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