What have we
Susan G. Duncan
What have we, here,
homegrown?
The best of it:
riven doggeries,
erratic facts,
left-handed
responses?
(the Niagara River?)
Risking everything,
the world only spins forward
from chaos to fragility.
(Holy moly, carry me!)
Tough luck—
(scissors, paper, rock)
falling, ill.
Susan G. Duncan is a consultant with an arts clientele, capping a career in arts administration. She served as executive director for San Francisco’s Beach Blanket Babylon, the California Shakespeare Theater, and the Grammy-winning ensemble Chanticleer. Her poems have been published in The MacGuffin and Soundings East, among other journals and anthologies.