“Interior with Young Woman” by Susan Okie (poetry ’14)
An excerpt from “Interior with Young Woman” by Susan Okie (poetry ’14), published by Valparaiso Poetry Review.
Interior with Young Woman
A borrowed house awaited,
empty but warm with intention—
soft white rugs for bare feet,
orange cushions posed on sofas.
A woman by Picasso kept one eye
on us. The other watched the lights
down in the valley. He played me
music from his country, asked
to dance. Awkward, I shuffled
to the beat. When he held me,
my body recoiled. I was a crane,
he a rooster, glossy, compact.
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