Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Woman Seeks Body” by Susan Wismer.

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Woman Seeks Body

By Susan Wismer

Convivial companion

pliant and kind not overly given

to pain. Strong steady

heart, generous hands

Play piano, love

naked laughter, wide feet

curvy legs. Avid reader,

enjoy hikes, be

Willing to travel together

to ash, bone shards

compost: what we have

to offer

is our lasting

to calcium curves

of a snail shell, beach pebbles,

gossamer.

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Copyright © Susan Wismer

Forthcoming in Syracuse Cultural Workers Women Artists Agenda 2025 (fall 2024)

Susan Wismer is a queer poet who is grateful to live on Treaty 18 territory at the southern shore of Manidoo-gitchigami (Georgian Bay) in Ontario, Canada with two human partners and a very large dog. Hag Dances is coming out with At Bay Press in Spring 2025.

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