Susan Stenson, author of Could Love A Man (Sono Nis, 2001), has won the League of Canadian Poets National Poetry Competition and This Magazine’s Great Literary Hunt.
I’m not just another American gringo, chasing old lady luck South. Staring wide-eyed at their beautiful skin, at the bones of the burros, the dogs and the rats. It’s not why I’ve come,
to stare, to open my eyes this wide, sucking the lemon before I drink.
