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Connecticut, where she studied with poets James Scully and Marilyn Nelson<br />
and was a two-time recipient of the Wallace Stevens Poetry Prize. The<br />
author of Peggy Sue Messed Up, her work has appeared in Rust and Moth,<br />
Anti-Heroin Chic, Clock<strong>wise</strong> <strong>Cat</strong>, The Scarecrow Journal, and the Adelaide<br />
Literary Magazine (short-listed for Pushcart nomination), among others. A<br />
2017 transplant to the Twin Cities, Susan’s readings include Barnes and<br />
Noble (Stamford, CT), The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center (NY), Curley’s<br />
Poets (Stamford, CT) Writers Resist (Norwalk Community College),<br />
Confluencia (Palace Theater, Danbury CT), and most recently The Day of<br />
the Dead Poets Slam in Rochester, MN. To pay the bills, Susan is Annual<br />
Fund and Communications Manager for Way to Grow in Minneapolis, a<br />
nonprofit organization committed to closing the educational gap among the<br />
Twin Cities’ most isolated families. More of her work may be found at<br />
www.musepalace.wordpress.com. Her video readings may be seen at:<br />
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDZupms9agckaMAUGe5B7yA?view<br />
_as=subscriber!<br />
Enola Gay<br />
Put the dark goggles on.<br />
If we fail, there is a pill to take.<br />
Six minutes, and you will be gone.<br />
You won’t know anything.<br />
You won’t talk to the enemy.<br />
The sun’s red hull invades the horizon.<br />
It is time to deliver the physicist’s nightmare—<br />
The brightest and hottest thing since creation.<br />
Do not look at the source of fierce light.<br />
Cold math is our new co-pilot.<br />
Then, a lead taste in the mouth,<br />
A crackling of the jaw—<br />
Quantum artifacts embed in my fillings,<br />
Pass through flesh.<br />
They could be seen, felt, tasted.<br />
Micro-clots of seared blood in my veins.<br />
My god, look at that son of a bitch go.