Bio
Suzanne Herschell lives in the harbour side community of Eastbourne across from Wellington, New Zealand. A former teacher of accelerate students and mother of four, Suzanne is a poet, an award winning NZ artist, curator at the NZ Academy of Fine Arts, and a selector and judge of national exhibitions. Her poems have been published in Meniscus (Australia), NZ Poetry Society - A Fine Line, Blackmail Press, Shot Glass Journal, Fib Review (USA), The Ghazal Page, various Anthologies and National Poetry Day selections in NZ & US, and chosen for Volume 12 of Katherine Mansfield Studies, to be published by Edinburgh University Press.
Suzanne Herschell
An Early Morning's Reading of Poetry
morning swirls into the sky on stirred air
whooshing & hurling an agitation of thoughts
communing with currents unusual & fresh
that snatch at fibre or whim each stretching alive
in the howl & haul to the high stratosphere
I wrap myself in customary black
a peasant of dark imaginings & search
the depths of esoteric verse to unearth its strata
its diverse threads connect or untie
& hang my own on jostled lines
to string like an elusive kite as I cling
holding taut the course of a bird
soaring to a speck in this turbulent sky
with a flock of words on wing