Bio
Suzanne Herschell lives in the harbour side community of Eastbourne across from Wellington in New Zealand. A former teacher of accelerate students and mother of four, Suzanne is a poet and an award winning artist represented in NZ and overseas. She is also a curator at the NZ Academy of Fine Arts, and a selector and judge of national exhibitions and this year is curator of NZ's 2018 Parkin Drawing Prize. Her poems have been published in Meniscus (Australia), NZ Poetry Society - A Fine Line, Blackmail Press, Shot Glass Journal, Fib Review (USA), The Ghazal Page, Plate in the Mirror 2016 Anthology, Eastbourne Anthology (Makaro Press) and National Poetry Day selections.
Suzanne Herschell
Receipt
he leant now against the veranda rail
stiff frame of the reluctant traveller
& the place quietly took him
shook the resistance
he quickened
looked ahead
into what he saw before
thoughts in tufts of cloud & sea
his sea
letting the current tip into him
flow through his body
the distance between him & me
closed to a door slightly ajar
of a room we both
inhabited