Susan Adams Poems

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1.
Escape The Beloved Country

The foetal curve
is a question mark
we revert to
not a haven for a life
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2.
Drink

I stare at my cup of lukewarm tea
cradle the bowl
as I would your head against me.
Loosed light on tremor rippled surface
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3.
Entire Of Himself

We live here - 'Raphael, '
a leprosy colony in India.
The 'caste' means we are both cast
to the separation of ordinary.
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4.
The Donation

I stare at ten red fingernails spread on arm boards
fine blonde hair too real for the pillow
eyes roam monitors, oxygen level,
heart beat pulse, return to red, back to clock,
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5.
As It Was For Me

You came in the wet, satin depths of me
rogue wave broadside
determined ambition
of burst pain
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6.
Caught

Two tankers sit at the split between
sky and water,
our ankles are knit by rockpool eddies
and arms wrap the other as linen,
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7.
The River Becomes

Landscape is a slovenly
hot, dirty white.
The Ganges font
in the foothills of mountains
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8.
Wearing Ourselves

You dare to part the grass to find the mirror.
Pain carves you out of different stone
but you fight to become similar,
to know the thrill
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9.
Want

Sheets once scattered with pools of hope
are patient
the chequered patterns from
dried unions
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10.
Sunday Dance At The Westbeach Retirement Glade

Feet sad the floor
like record grooves that can't escape the needle,
there's a weariness in the warp and weave of steps.
Eyes are parables,
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