“Eve Walking Through,” by Susan Jo Russell (Poetry ’17)

Poetry graduate Susan Jo Russell recently had two poems featured in the Leon Literary Review. Read an excerpt of “Eve Walking Through” below:

Eve Walking Through

Eve walks the garden
mud splashed to her thighs
everything filmed with damp—
mushrooms sprout in the leaf layers,
tar spot blooms on the sycamore.
All summer the leaves blister
and fall out of season,
crinkle underfoot like shed snake skins—

Read the rest of this poem (and “The Face”) here: http://leonliteraryreview.com/author-page/susan-jo-russell/