7,000 feet up Mount Rainier, inside Paradise Glacier, walls and ceiling glow blue, half a million years compacting snow. Through a round opening I stoop to enter, stand but can’t stretch out my arms. Enclosed, womb-like, some presence makes me feel beheld, silence-wrapped. Summer melts made globby knobs on cave roof and walls but warming […]
Susan Shaw Sailer
Susan Shaw Sailer has published three volumes of poetry: The Distance Beyond Sight, The God of Roundabouts, and Ship of Light as well as two chapbooks—COAL and Bulletins from a War Zone. Sailer taught in the English Department at West Virginia University, retired, and then earned a master’s degree in writing poetry.