Tuesday poem #675 : Susan Robertson : I BEGIN THE POEM WITH A LIE

 

 

Red bird
in a dark wood, 

a silhouette— 
you, the tree— 

your red 

the only colour
in the green.

 

 

 

Susan Robertson grew up outside Washington, D.C. but has made her home in Canada for years. Her poems have appeared in journals in Canada and the United States including Prairie Fire, the Offing, Grain, HAD, The Ex-Puritan, and The Fiddlehead. Her chapbook, So I Go, is out with Baseline Press.

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