Three Poems
Suzanne Verrall
Midwinter
a grand old dame
playing piano in the dark
show tunes from her days
in the spotlight
refusing to pay the electricity bill
even though she lives in a mansion
and the frost is hard
Street Shadows
the cat is an evening ghost
with its collar
turned up against the cold
its loping strides
carrying it away
from a busy day at the office
and into a night
of looking in at windows
Society Street
the Jack Russell terriers
in bright spangled ruffs
are dancing and twirling
for loose change on the corner
while promenading on hind legs
like highwire walkers
the Great Danes
push their offspring in prams
Suzanne Verrall lives in Adelaide, Australia. Her flash fiction, essays and poetry appear in Atlas and Alice, Flash Frontier, Archer Magazine, Lip Magazine, Poetry NZ Yearbook, Australian Poetry Journal, and others. www.suzanneverrall.com
