Abundance
by Susan Shea
I can go from aisle to aisle choosing
pineapples from South America
dates from the Middle East
gooseberries from Europe
to mix and match, to please and
to belly dance our appetites
I can effortlessly ride them home
in my snowmobile
while the eagles above me cartwheel
locking each other’s talons
twirling and gliding united
only coming apart right before
they hit the ground
daredevils showing their solidarity
preparing to mate
to defend their territory
overlooking any need
to have more than enough
pineapples from South America
dates from the Middle East
gooseberries from Europe
to mix and match, to please and
to belly dance our appetites
I can effortlessly ride them home
in my snowmobile
while the eagles above me cartwheel
locking each other’s talons
twirling and gliding united
only coming apart right before
they hit the ground
daredevils showing their solidarity
preparing to mate
to defend their territory
overlooking any need
to have more than enough
Susan Shea is a retired school psychologist who grew up in Brooklyn, New York and now lives in a forest in Pennsylvania. She returned to writing poetry three years ago, and since then, her poems have been published in or are now forthcoming in Chiron Review, ONE ART, Folio Literary Journal, Radix Magazine, The RavensPerch, Cloudbank, Ekstasis, MacQueen's Quinterly, Green Silk Journal, The Write Launch, Foreshadow, The Loch Raven Review, and others. Within the last few months one of her poems was nominated for Best of the Net by Cosmic Daffodil, and three poems were nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Umbrella Factory Magazine.