The Words
Suzanne Morris
October 8, 2021
My friend with brain cancer
can’t talk in a straight line
anymore.
It all started when
she fell asleep one afternoon,
and when she got home
from dreamland
she’d left behind the
map to
where her words live.
The last time we talked
on the phone
we joined hands and
walked into her
strange new neighborhood.
Suzanne Morris is a novelist with eight published works, most recently, Aftermath (SFA University Press, 2016). Until recently, her poetry appeared only in her fiction. However, last year she was invited to contribute seven poems to an anthology entitled No Season for Silence - Texas Poets and Pandemic, (Kallisto Gaia Press).
