Sisters by Susan Richardson

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I am a slick pen

slicing furtively into bone

She is a kind heart

bleeding with purpose

onto a muslin sleeve

I am a ghost on the parchment

She is a splash of color

saturating the page

I command pity

She earns respect

I am words

lacerating sensibilities

She is music

sitting sweetly in the mouth

I am a split lip

She is an unscathed tongue

I am deceit

She is a white lie

-SUSAN RICHARDSON

Susan Richardson is the author of “Things My Mother Left Behind”, from Potter’s Grove Press, and also writes the blog, “Stories from the Edge of Blindness”. Her poems have appeared in The California Quarterly, Ink Sweat and Tears, and The Opiate Magazine, among others. 

You can read more of her work at FloweringInk Poetry and Blogger Susan Richardson and find her on Twitter @floweringink.

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