Two Poems by Susan Scheid

Resilience Even the “R” has curvesbends to the groundreboundsjoins the othersto lead the wayon its thin legs The Jade Belt I feel the scales form.First behind my earsnext along ridges of bonebetween shoulder blades. The...

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My first creations were small and elaborate villages that I made for ants. On the Scottish side of my family I come from a...

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In each culture, I have experienced the feelings of an outsider... My need to communicate this point of view is what drives my art.

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