Monday, June 20, 2022

SEQUEL

by Susan Barry-Schulz



          
 
we’ve started
already
 
marring Mars
with our glittering
litter
 
dotted earth debris
in the form
of blended aluminized
specialty fabrics
 
first wind-blown
across a dusty landscape
 
now lodged
in the rugged rocks
of an ancient river delta
on another planet
 
how capable
how culpable


Susan Barry-Schulz grew up just outside of Buffalo, New York. She is a licensed physical therapist living with chronic illness and an advocate for mental health and reducing stigma in IBD. Her work has appeared in The New Verse News, SWWIM, Barrelhouse online, Nightingale & Sparrow, Shooter Literary Magazine, Kissing Dynamite, The Wild Word, Bending Genres, Feral, Quartet, Wordgathering, Gyroscope Review, Harpy Hybrid Review, West Trestle Review, and elsewhere.