Moth by Susan Tepper

When you know 
it’s time to slip out
seamlessly 
A moth 
through a ripped screen
Once the light’s been 
switched off
Flittering—
a drop to the gutter
possibly the last 
truth emerging
from the shit 
with no access to toilets

Susan Tepper is the author of nine published books of fiction and poetry. Her most current are a poetry chap CONFESS (Cervena Barva Press, 2020) and a funky road novel WHAT DRIVES MEN (Wilderness House Press, 2019).  Currently she is in pre-production of a play she adapted from an earlier novel about artist Jackson Pollock in his later years. www.susantepper.com