Tuesday, July 29, 2025

To Have and To Hold by Susan Shea

 

Image | Doralin Tunas

To Have and To Hold

 

I kept looking for the place

​         for the battery in the heated socks

you gave me, expecting another first

to add to the list of gifts I never

dreamed I would ever hold

 

but I am coming to understand

the warmth may be concealed

in the tendered fibers

designed to release

 

slow burning comfort that

creates its own electrical currents

 

beyond what can be explained

on the packaging 


         © Susan Shea


Susan Shea

Susan Shea’s poetry has been accepted by Chiron Review, Ekstasis, Loch Raven Review, LitBreak, Foreshadow, The Gentian, and others. Within the past few months, one of her poems was nominated for Best of the Net by Cosmic Daffodil, and three poems were nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Umbrella Factory Magazine.


 

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