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Once Upon a Time: Stories & Poems of the Dharma

Spring 2013 Vol. 29 #2

Spring 2013 Vol. 29 #2

Poems/Not Poems | No Fixed Self

Crazy Love

By Susan Austin

The grain of a story
begins in the gullet

It’s the shoes we take off again
put on again

The very things that tire me most
are my own creations

Let me fall through the floor boards
into that crazy love

Gnat that wants to taste my lip—
Taste my lip!

∞

From the Spring 2013 issue of Inquiring Mind (Vol. 29, No. 2)

© 2013 Susan Austin

Susan Austin lives and writes in the Idaho mountains. The grain of her poem began while emptying red sand from southern Utah out of her shoes.

Susan Austin lives and writes in the Idaho mountains. The grain of her poem began while emptying red sand from southern Utah out of her shoes.