This Poem was Submitted By: Lisa Marie Duff On Date: 2001-07-05 20:47:55 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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The Woman in the Window

She sits there staring Waiting Her legs slightly curled under  Her left hand lying on one knee The other with a cup of tea Held neatly in her wrinkling fingers Swirling the amber liquid A wool blanket dresses her shoulders Irritating her milky coated arms The windowsill like a cold piece of glass Her reflection colored over  By the faces trotting in the street The man who sings for his supper Jiggling a torn Dixie cup in his hand Filled with only dimes and nickels While trying to hold up his advertisement The gray haired woman who stops To fill his cup with spare change Dropping her groceries One crimson apple rolling out  From under the plastic The woman who was born  With the sun in her hair  Passes by without even  Stopping to help Then the man she knows so well The one she has shared her bed with Every night for over 20 years Stumbles out from the Small tavern across the street She sits there staring Knowing That tonight will be another night Where she sleeps with the smell Of alcohol on her sheets

Copyright © July 2001 Lisa Marie Duff

Additional Notes:
This poem has not been published, but was written during the course of a poetry workshop. Of course, it was discussed at some point, but not in detail. Please note that the initial caps on every sentence and omission of punctuation was done on purpose. =)


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