With Susie at the Top of The World
We came full of questions.
We thought we were making something,
a future. It was starlight
that answered us. We sought the best
of each of us, our own glow.
Then, when even that bridge collapsed,
we started to love each other.
It was a pitiful concession. It was cheap
for the cost. Susie said,
Look up ahead, I think that’s paradise.
We gathered our thoughts. We
set out again, this time without a catechism.
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Corey Mesler is the owner of Burke’s Book Store, in Memphis, Tennessee, one of the country’s oldest (1875) independent bookstores. He has published poetry and fiction in numerous journals including Rattle, Pindeldyboz, Quick Fiction, Cranky, Thema, Mars Hill Review, and Poet Lore. He has also been a book reviewer for The Memphis Commercial Appeal. A short story of his was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year’s Best. Talk, his first novel, appeared in 2002 and included nice blurbs from Lee Smith, John Grisham, Robert Olen Butler, Frederick Barthelme, and others. He has a new novel, We Are Billion-Year-Old Carbon. He has 8 chapbooks in print. His poem “Sweet Annie Divine,” was chosen for Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. He also claims to have written “It’s my Party.” Most importantly, he is Toby and Chloe’s dad and Cheryl’s husband. He can be found at www.coreymesler.com.
