Projection

Since I can’t carry my Rorschach test
with me everywhere I go to get to
really know you layered people
who keep your truths undercover

I will be asking you what you think of
other people so you can freely tell me
where it hurts and where it makes you
flutter your eyelashes in delight

so we can sit next to each other
looking out in the same direction
at our life smudges
together, and maybe we will begin

to see the darkest inkiest blots start to
move across our pages in the right direction

Susan Sheais a retired school psychologist who was raised in New York City, and is now living in a forest in Pennsylvania.  Since she has returned to writing poetry last year, her poems have been accepted by a number of publications, including: MacQueen’s Quinterly, Across the Margin, Ekstasis, Feminine Collective, The Avalon Literary Review, Persimmon Tree Literary Magazine, Military Experience and the Arts, Triggerfish Critical Review, Amethyst Review, and Litbreak Magazine, The Gentian, and others.  Susan enjoys rock sculpting, quilting, and hiking with her husband.