SAN FRANCISCO POETS Susan Birkeland (1961 ~ 2006)	Please visit the web site created in loving memory of Susan Birkeland at www.susanbirkeland.com There you will find more information about Susan, her poetry, art, photographs, as well as the poems of remembrance written by her friends.

City Of Love Sing to me from budding trees Carry on and carry less O My City O My Lover A hometown that needs no defenses? Love without envy? An easy life? A happy death? Know these blue skies and clean water for every thirsty foreign child friends of friends I've never met smiling fat girls and uncles in freedom's lucky trance. Mercy stands by the road drawing circles in the dry red earth with the corner of his soft boot. My father is an optimist. My mother, slow and old and practical. What holds us together. City of Love The Return of Mercy Some day. Some say. Some do say. ©Susan Birkeland This poem is from Susan Birkeland's new chapbook of poetry and drawings titled "The Bruised Angel Almanac" available from Bruce Isaacson, publisher ~ Zeitgeist Press "Her James Dean Smile" by Susan Birkeland

Susan Birkeland was a poet, painter, performance artist and drama therapist. Her work has appeared in Left Curve Magazine, The North Coast Review, Puck Magazine, Zen Baby, The Haight Ashbury Literary Journal, The North Beach Journal, The Trinity Review, Pangolin Papers, and An Eye For A Eye Makes the Whole World Blind. Susan lived and loved in San Francisco

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