I am super excited to have a poem in Ink Sweat & Tears today! It is an honor to be a part of this incredible journal. My huge thanks go out to Editor Helen Ivory and Publisher Kate Birch!
If you would like to read my poem, you can do so here.
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I am a writer, going blind in Los Angeles. This blog is my story of a slow approach to darkness as I traverse through the rubble of urban life. It is what I see in the withering spaces of my remaining vision. It is humor and despair and darkness and light. It is what I witness as the world slowly disappears.
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Stories From the Edge of Blindness 
December 10, 2018 at 7:50 am
Right on, congratulations!
December 10, 2018 at 8:01 am
Thank you so much, my friend!!!!
December 10, 2018 at 11:32 am
You’re welcome.
December 10, 2018 at 7:52 am
congratulations!!!! I am thrilled for you and it is a great poem!
December 10, 2018 at 8:01 am
Thank you so much, Wendi!
December 10, 2018 at 6:23 pm
you are very welcome………may your day bring you a smile!
December 10, 2018 at 7:55 am
Dear Susan, thank you for sharing this poem. I raise my invisible hat to your skills as a poet and a wordsmith. There were lines that were so clever they left me gasping. S book of your poems would definitely be high on my Christmas wishlist. Many congratulations. Great poem.
December 10, 2018 at 8:02 am
You are, as ever, so kind and generous! Thank you so much, Steve!
December 10, 2018 at 8:08 am
congratulations well deserved, great poem!
December 10, 2018 at 8:09 am
Thank you my love!
December 10, 2018 at 8:38 am
Congratulations Suasan, this is excellent, so much vivid imagery!!
December 10, 2018 at 8:49 am
Thank you so much, Paul!!!! You are so wonderful!
December 10, 2018 at 9:59 am
Likewise Susan. I can’t thank you enough for being so (very genuinely) encouraging!
December 10, 2018 at 8:40 am
A fabulous visceral poem: attack the best form of defense, perhaps, or merely to mask the scars. A great poem and congrats.
December 10, 2018 at 8:50 am
Thank you, Chris!!!!
December 10, 2018 at 8:53 am
You go girl!
December 10, 2018 at 8:57 am
Thank you, Steve!!!!!!
December 10, 2018 at 9:30 am
Each poem of yours I read is better than the last. Great theme — don’t we all know someone like that? Congratulations, my dear Susan!
December 10, 2018 at 9:31 am
You are so so lovely! Thank you very much, my friend!!!
December 10, 2018 at 9:31 am
You are most welcome, this was an exquisite poem.
December 10, 2018 at 9:33 am
Wow, Susan! The description left me broken and breathless. Such a tough subject and you tackled it like a boss. I love this. 💜
December 10, 2018 at 9:36 am
Thank you so much, Angela!!! I thought you might like this one!!!! Every once in a while, we need to bite down hard.
You are the loveliest, my friend!!! Your support means so much to me!
December 10, 2018 at 9:38 am
Absolutely my pleasure to read. I LOVE it! I actually just wrote one on a very similar topic. I agree! We need to get down and dirty every now and then. Sometimes a lot for a while!
Likewise, Susan. 💜
December 10, 2018 at 9:39 am
I can’t wait to read it!!!!!
December 10, 2018 at 9:41 am
It’s up today. Also one that is really raw. Love to you my friend. I appreciate your words so much!
December 10, 2018 at 9:44 am
I am going to read it now! Love right back to you!
December 10, 2018 at 10:01 am
You just left a lump in my throat. Speechless. You did an amazing job here. The language is so alive and painful. So well deserved.
December 10, 2018 at 10:18 am
Thank you so much, B! xoxo
December 10, 2018 at 12:06 pm
Wow, that’s incredible. Every word was so sharp and precise, and the images were so vivid. Congratulations, Susan. Well deserved!
December 10, 2018 at 12:40 pm
Thank you so much, Steven!!!! I am thrilled that the language came across to you the way it did! You are wonderful!
December 10, 2018 at 1:59 pm
You’re an amazing poet. 🙂
December 10, 2018 at 1:52 pm
Stingers and zingers from a real mud slinger.
I don’t know who that is, real or not….you made it real.
I need a nap.
Well done.
December 10, 2018 at 3:21 pm
Thanks so much, Mark!!!
December 10, 2018 at 2:45 pm
Wow – that’s super cool. Absolutely crushed her!! I wonder if she’ll ever read it; and if she did I wonder if she’s self-aware enough to see herself in there… Absolutely surgical writing though.
December 10, 2018 at 3:25 pm
Thank you so much!!!! Sometimes we need to write with a bit of a bite.
December 11, 2018 at 7:49 am
I think the answers to both of your questions are most likely, no!
December 10, 2018 at 6:18 pm
Amazing. I loved it.
December 11, 2018 at 7:50 am
Thank you so much, Jay-Iyn!!!
December 11, 2018 at 10:21 am
You are most welcome☺
December 10, 2018 at 9:38 pm
Marvelous 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
December 11, 2018 at 7:50 am
Thank you so much, Rita! xoxo
December 11, 2018 at 9:52 am
You are so very welcome!
December 10, 2018 at 10:24 pm
Susan, this woman
sounds like a dish
of warm coleslaw.
Yet … not a patch
on my mother-in-law!
December 11, 2018 at 7:51 am
Ha!!!!! You always make me smile, David!!!! And, sorry about the mother in law.
December 13, 2018 at 7:11 pm
That’s fine, Susan. They just happen.
December 11, 2018 at 12:32 am
Wonderful! Many congratulations :O) x
December 11, 2018 at 7:52 am
Thank you, so much!!!!
December 11, 2018 at 1:06 am
Congratulations!! I agree a book of your poetry will be a great feature on my bookshelf!
December 11, 2018 at 7:52 am
I am truly humbled and you are so lovely!!!! Thank you!
December 11, 2018 at 1:23 am
I’ve just read your poem and it is a devastating write! Well done! I know a few women just like that and try to avoid them as best I can!
December 11, 2018 at 7:53 am
Right? Not the best company, in my opinion! Thank you again for reading and for your generous comments!!!
December 13, 2018 at 3:55 pm
This was such a powerful piece, filled with a venom I’d not seen from you before. Excellent poetry dear friend. 💛
December 13, 2018 at 5:02 pm
Thank you so much, Walt!!! It takes a lot for that side of me to be provoked, but it does happen occasionally and no better way to shed the feelings that to write about them!!!
December 13, 2018 at 8:20 pm
Our great catharsis! 😊
December 14, 2018 at 6:59 am
Words can hurt so much. Sometimes I cannot understand whether such people do this deliberately or they are just not aware of what they are doing.
December 14, 2018 at 7:05 am
I think a bit of both. It takes a lot to get me to the point of writing something like that, and I feared that my words might hurt, but I had to express it. I have made sure that certain people will never see the poem.
February 7, 2019 at 3:18 am
Congrats. Nice work. Nice thoughts. If you have time check out my poem here Here