Susanna Rich
Earth
Hear the heart,
the heart tear.
The retreat.
Rat hate her.
Hater rath—
heat, heat ether,
rate her, eat her.
Theater. Theater.
Rhea, hart, hare
rear,
tear, retear.
Retreat.
Hearth teeter.
Rather tether.
Ear the art,
the tart art,
the rare art,
the attar—
treat her
heart her.
Susanna Rich
Beauty
Bay beauty
Butte beauty
Bayuu beauty

Abet aye
Bye-bye batty
Eat babba

Abate abbé
Buy tea
Butt abut butt but

Tabby beauty
Tuba beauty
Tutu beauty

Beat beta
Buu buu tabu
Bae, beau, bébé

Bub-a-bub-bub
Tee á eau tub
Bubba bub

Tub beauty
Tee beauty
At-bat beauty

Ebb U-tube
Buu-buu tabu
Bet a bet, yet

Beauty tuut
Tuut beauty
Eye beauty, Be
Susanna Rich
#Weed
            gold grass
                                skunk fu
                           blunt
       reefer


                 devil’s lettuce
                               unblock
         domino

                                    dope me dope
     a robe of light         scroll 
the earth under me

                     bud me
stillness in cacophony
               chronic     smoke

                      stone nugs
cannibisize      im-pot-ence
                                         green gas

             hay hay
                              blazing doobie doo
                  un-Bogarted


                 Mary-Jane   all
                                                separate
      joint