Taking a Turn

By Susan Shea

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I wake up in my high count sheets

threadbare thin in spirit today

feeling perishable I gasp for soul
I need fresh air           the inner life

I need to take excursion to the
ancient paths to find a perch
to see them from above

I’ll find a ferris wheel
oh wheel
refresh my drive

take me to the highest
place to rest
to heal my bones

make wise my simple

make me know again

all bliss comes from
a turn           return
to sacred

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Susan Shea is a retired school psychologist who was born in New York City and now lives in a forest in Pennsylvania. She has returned to writing poetry in 2023, and this year she has been published in several dozen journals including Ekstasis, The Bluebird Word, Last Stanza Poetry Journal, The Bookends Review, Poetry Breakfast, Book of Matches Literary Magazine and The Agape Review, as well as three anthologies. Recently, she has had poems accepted for Feminine Collective, Military Experience and the Arts, Tiny Wren, Crowstep Poetry Journal, Green Ink Poetry, The Avalon Literary Review and Clayjar Review.