Susan Shaw Sailer has published three volumes of poetry: The Distance Beyond Sight, The God of Roundabouts, and Ship of Light as well as two chapbooks—COAL and Bulletins from a War Zone. Sailer taught in the English Department at West Virginia University, retired, and then earned a master’s degree in writing poetry. Her manuscript On the Doorstep is seeking publication and she’s working on a new manuscript. Recent poems appeared in Gyroscope Review and Thimble Literary Magazine.
To My Young Self
To My Young Self you took up nearly no space so quiet you were never heard or seen see here in the front yard among the mini Japanese maple tree the Oregon grape bush the stained-brown fence beyond you were a piece of beauty bark merely ground …