Poetry
Flâneuse
The poet Gérald de Nerval strolled with his pet lobster,
Thibault, on a blue silk ribbon-leash, argued
a lobster was no more ridiculous than a dog.
You are a botanist of the sidewalk, Baudelaire would say,
if he were rambling beside me. Crowds
by the river—a trumpet covered in polka dots, a straw hat
with Carmen Miranda bananas and cherries catch my eye.
Susana H. Case
Susana H. Case is the award-winning author of nine books of poetry, most recently, If This Isn't Love, Broadstone Books, and co-editor with Margo Taft Stever of I Wanna Be Loved by You: Poems on Marilyn Monroe, Milk & Cake Press. The first of her five chapbooks, The Scottish Café, Slapering Hol Press, was re-released in an English- Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka by Opole University Press and as an English- Ukrainian edition, Шотландська Кав'ярня by Slapering Hol Press. https://www.susanahcase.com.