Suzanna Derewicz is a writer based in Toronto, Canada. She has recently been published on nationalpo trymonth.ca, In/Words Magazine, (parenthetical), untethered, The Quilliad and has poetry forthcoming in the Minola Review. Her debut chapbook Maggie Monologues will be released in Fall 2016 by words(on)pages press.
1 poem by Suzanna Derewicz
central
i write a lot of poems
abt this bar. i’d never
come here willingly tho
dragged by the wrists
maybe b/w the 3.50 rye
and the tall can special
the words go black.
my future rivals backlit
by polly pocket stages
those greatest minds
of my generation w/
screens for eyes. teeth,
mini pitchers of hair fall
into my prophetic lap.
i agonize abt how many
of them i’ll kno in 10 yrs.
don’t think anyone i had
10 yrs ago still thinks abt
keeping everyone
they ever loved.
my rival spikes iced tea
asks am i a fan of bon jovi
puts me up on instagram
finds my metropass, sips
coffee in a hospital caf
w/ me, says it’ll be ok.
borrows me a kids book
tells me to keep it
takes too many pills when
the house guests leave.
their roommate does me
a tattoo in the living room
on a prayer, the last time
we speak they say –
“i remembr you taller”
covered in arms, i shrink
away from these tables
and poems abt cheap
threats when after all i
still remembr the kindness.