Susan Adams Biography

The foetal curve
is a question mark
we revert to
not a haven for a life
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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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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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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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You came in the wet, satin depths of me
rogue wave broadside
determined ambition
of burst pain
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