Susan Muth
Susan Muth is a Pushcart-nominated queer writer from Virginia. She is an MFA poetry candidate at George Mason University where she won the 2022 Joseph A. Lohman III Poetry Prize, and also serves as Poetry Editor for phoebe. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Pinch, Breakwater Review, Chaotic Merge Magazine, Ucity Review, Rejection Letters, The Northern Virginia Review, and others. She currently lives in Arlington, Virginia.
Notes on Yearning
When I’m gone they will say I was a good daughter
when really I was just 
a drought begging like a scythe
a drought begging like a scythe in the night dusting the decapitated
grain flint split into staircase my mother
into staircase my mother tells me I’m always attached to her breast
breast in anxiety dreams that I feed for too long when
dreams that I feed for too long whenI’m gone they will say I was a good daughter
when really I was a drought asking for someone
I was a drought asking for someone to acknowledge my heat throat dry from shoveling this shale
throat dry from shoveling this shaleasking the sky for a well
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