New Poem up at Stirring Literary Journal

My poem "The Irises" is included in the July 2011 issue of Stirring. Thanks Erin and staff.

http://www.sundresspublications.com/stirring/schumejdar.htm

www.rebeccaschumejda.com

“In This Picture”



Never will you

bait the hook

for the child

floundering

inside me.



In this picture

we sandwich

a blue fish.



In this picture

we both wear

stubborn noses.



In this picture

you smell like

saltwater.



In this picture

is all I have

left of you.



I am seven

and in love

with you, forever.



In this picture

your heart

was not weak.



In this picture

no tombstones,

just fishhooks.



Someday, curious,

your grandchild

will ask

who you were

and I will say

in this picture

you were Neptune,

god of the sea.