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Afternoon Affair

In an arroyo
wind stirs

the heather and flox
lifts my nipples

brushes my lips
and this rush

like sun-lighted
water spills

through a fissure
in the land.


Susan Landgraf was awarded an Academy of American Poets’ Laureate award in 2020. Books include The Inspired Poet from Two Sylvias Press (2019), What We Bury Changes the Ground, and a chapbook, Other Voices. More than 400 poems have appeared in journals and magazines, most recently in Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Calyx, The Meadow, Tar River, and others. She served as Poet Laureate of Auburn, Washington, from 2018 to 2020.

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