Poetry – Issue 13 | September 2011
Turnover
by Suzanne Marie Hopcroft
Autumn and my tin can was enough, stray
pebbles from the drive rattling as I rolled
it all ridges and grooves between my knees in
the dog-eared porch-light, the metal growing
cold because we all were. The dragonflies and
Queen Anne’s lace, all the odd creatures with
misleading names were dropping dead so we
could rise up shivering, feel our own blood. I
wanted to call them on the other side, could just
see an insect Gargantua with his ear pressed to
the can, extolling the million virtues of an after-
life in which everything had shrunken. Good for
him, I thought; he deserves this. The sky would
eviscerate the sun, every night a little sooner.
About the author
Suzanne Marie Hopcroft is a PhD student in Comparative Literature who writes from New York City. Her work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in elimae, Everyday Genius > kill author, PANK, and Right Hand Pointing. She teaches developmental reading at a community college in the Bronx and wants very badly to get back to Paris, where people are kind enough to put up with her mediocre French.
Read our current issue, Issue 13 | September 2011:
Poetry
Berlin by Sy Margaret Baldwin
Two Poems by Sean Edgley
After Your Funeral I Set Out to Find You in Different Time Zones by Jennifer Faylor
Painter by Ricky Garni
Other Than by Dana Guthrie Martin
Two poems by Timothy Kercher
Five Views of Guanajuato: A Mythology by Athena Kildegaard
Two poems by Mary Kovaleski Byrnes
Goya by Trent Nutting
The Changing of the Flowers by Jennifer Saunders
Two poems by Ken Turner
Postcard prose
Buttons by Jennifer Faylor
The Enemy Tree by Kirby Wright
Escape on the Canal by Addie Zierman
