Susan Sonde, a finalist in Narrative’s Sixth Annual Poetry Contest, is the author of Inland Is Parenthetical and In the Longboats with Others, winner of the Capricorn Book Award. Other prizes include the Gordon Barber Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Beulah Rose Poetry Prize. Sonde has held teaching positions at the University of Maryland and the Writer’s Center, and lives in Odenton, Maryland.

Romeo to His Juliet

by Susan Sonde
As nothing shutters a bad like a good,
I’ll come to you, fish in water,
dime with a hole drilled through
the middle.


Let’s span a time with each other.
The mutual will give us pleasure.

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