Susan Craig
TRAUMA
The drama
unfolding, Little-
Big-Man pontificates
turtled, bespectacled: We will confirm
him, it’s all a smear, while she steels
for another assault, all the suited
assailing her story, digging for
memory glitches. As if
she would seek this, as if she would
welcome the world’s violation,
new swimsuit straps snapped,
tender mouth smothered by
men’s drunken thrust, weight
of them crushing her crushing
her body remembers,
escaping.
Susan Craig has spent her career in design and communications. She is a native South Carolinian and poet whose work has been featured in Kakalak, Mom Egg Review, and regional journals The Collective I, Fall Lines, and Jasper. Her manuscript was a semi-finalist in the 2018 Quill’s Edge chapbook contest. Three times her poems have been chosen for Columbia Poet Laureate Ed Madden’s public transit initiatives. She is a passionate mother of two adult sons and loves walking with her husband in the Congaree Swamp in silence. She enjoys lengthy discourse with her dog Charlie.
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