8/1/2023 7 Comments Poetry by Susan K. ReardonScott Dexter CC
Taking Inventory I'm always making a list for you, tracking the meandering path of my delights; searching for yours. When the goldfinches you call flying flowers rise up from behind kudzu-covered trees along the creek. The metaphor we made of the hot pink hibiscus flower with one ragged petal; something about the beauty of imperfection. Are there particular flowers that remind you of your children? When you laugh uncontrollably, which parts of your body ache? When did your parents love you best? Susan K. Reardon is teacher of neurodiverse preschoolers, a reading tutor, an on again-off again runner, and amateur violinist. A midwesterner by birth and a southerner for the past several decades, her writing has been shaped by living within these two very different cultural and physical climates. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Oberlin College and her Master’s degree in Early Childhood Special Education from Georgia State University. She’s spent her career on the front lines of teaching and learning. At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, she followed an impulse to join a poetry class, and has been working at writing poems ever since. If she had her life to live over, she would be a Speech-Language Pathologist poet who plays jazz piano as a side gig. Her first poetic crushes were e.e. cummings and Emily Dickinson.
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Ilse
8/6/2023 08:55:38 am
Congrats, Susan! This is magnificent, too. I hope you'll continue to bless the masses with your talented and incredibly beautiful inner world.
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Renee
8/6/2023 10:16:02 am
Beautiful, just beautiful.
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Jesse
8/6/2023 11:16:08 am
Beautiful and Interesting. Such a natural flow and personal tone. Love that the writer is addressing someone specific and close to them, and that last question is thought-provoking. Makes me want to ask you so many questions. Brava!
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Carissa
8/6/2023 11:17:10 am
Goosebumps. What a thoughtful and tender inquiry.
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8/6/2023 01:46:03 pm
Congratulations Susan. Happy to read this specialist poem.
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Rich Sullivan
8/8/2023 06:51:06 am
I really enjoyed the poem, Susan. I’m looking forward to sharing it with doris.
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