Art

I stopped into the museum because I like seeing
how hungry humans are. The world is not enough for us. 

We have to make our own versions of it: 
bridges, mountains, branches, fields

the way we see them, or what happens inside us 
    after we have opened ourselves

and swallowed. Here, what the world has done to me. 
  Here, what I do now with my eyes, mouth, hands. 

Susannah Sheffer’s newest poetry collection, The Stone Tries to Understand the Hands, was published by Cornerstone Press in 2025. Her previous collections include Break and Enter (2021) and This Kind of Knowing (2013). She lives in Western Massachusetts.