POEM: "Midnight Messenger" (Susan Chesney)

Artist/Poet Chuka Susan Chesney edited by Dhr. Seven and Ashley Wells, Wisdom Quarterly

MIDNIGHT MESSENGER

Cover "Meum Doleo" by Christie Shinn

my window cloaked by

midnight figure

   she gazes 

I'm only nine

this wizard woman

savors sweet

hung from shingle and raingutter

   inverted teacup of stained night

   this evening bird

knows the way I turn and toss

   steps on tips of blanket wave

ignites my breath with

riddles woven by her stance

   I know

   thoughts confide

   restless smoke

   candle extinguished

BOOK: People Like Cats

Paperback by Laura Madeline Wiseman (author),‎ Chuka Susan Chesney (artist)

People Like Cats is a collaborative book with art by Chuka Susan Chesney and poetry by Laura Madeline Wiseman published by Red Dashboard. 

Featuring Chesney's lush and varied art and Wiseman's prose poetry, it contains all things of cat fancy as it meditates on the human itch for feline companionship.

At least since the time of Christopher Smart and Thomas Gray through that of T. S. Eliot, poets have focused on their affection for cats

...People Like Cats continues this strong tradition with beauty, variety, and sensitivity. The book's title poem embodies the clever ambiguity which characterizes Wiseman's playful and engaging games with language...her witty verbal play on common language about cats does not undermine the serious theme of a growing girl's encounters with the complexities of life.

She gains an early introduction to responsibilities such as cleaning and shopping, to the grim realities of hardship and delight, of sex and love, of frustration and satisfaction, of disappointment and... More