Spring, 2023
Suzanne Morris
April 23, 2023
Well. Spring.
It comes in spite.
I’ve been down
the hill
to that place where
the wild red maple grows,
the one you liked.
Though you weren’t here
to drive the buggy down there
it budded out anyway
as if in memoriam
knowing that
under its shade
we would scatter
your ashes.
Suzanne Morris is a novelist and poet. Her work is included in several poetry anthologies, most recently, Lone Star Poetry (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022). Her poems have appeared in The Texas Poetry Assignment, The New Verse News, Stone Poetry Quarterly, The Pine Cone Review, Emblazoned Soul Review, and Creatopia Magazine. Ms. Morris lives in Cherokee County, Texas.
