Susan Lacovara Poems

But for freedom's chance this day be ours
Beneath banner spangled stars
To lips the names that came before
Announced from sea to shining shore
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This chair knows how old I am
And how old I have become
Sitting beneath the window sill
That provides a slotted view
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You give me more than I know
More than I ask
More than I ever believed
You give me more than you show
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A corduroy coat,
from the back of the rack
It's past, invisible..but certainly there...
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In a box, in a drawer, in a cupboard, in a corner
Lie the remnant reflections of a departed lover's mourner
On a shelf, on a whim, on a back-burner, windowsill
Rest the spirits, of those suitors, she place upon a pedestal
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Anybody in this nobody town
Care to help to tear it down
The burned out strip mall
With graffiti, profound
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That your eyes see past the skin
That holds me within

That your hands reach not only for my body
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Let me see inside of YOUR beautiful
For the love you've given me
is quite the miracle
You're the one, who took this one,
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It started quite the usual way...
This day....
With just enough chance of rain
To keep me hopeful for afternoon sun...
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