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Susan Tepper was a TWA stewardess during the Vietnam War years and flew with the troops on the charter flights into Vietnam. Today she is the author of seven published books of fiction and poetry. Her newest title, Monte Carlo Days & Nights, is set in the South of France and narrated by a stewardess of a later time period. www.susantepper.com.

Tangled

— First published in Poetry Salzburg Review

Susan Tepper

Scrape my face— find

vines and what I want

leave tangled—

there were countries

cut in sections

viable yet invisible

but for leanings— a shoulder

against a train window

raindrops blinding trees

beyond the reach of

what was cold

You clutched a coat

promised again to be sorry.

— Susan Tepper

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