Daily Archives: May 12, 2012

the gift

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

For mother’s day, 3 months after my Dad died, & 1 year after her own mother passed I made my mother dinner from her 1959 better homes & garden cookbook with the cardboard gingham cover I was 12 & proud … Continue reading →

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communication (haiku triptych)

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I am uncertain how 3 words breathed in passion more than we spoke them remain strong enough to hold us together still despite differences With what words then, love can I possibly free you? Can they be unsaid?

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the beautiful?

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

American, say it with a swagger & with confidence; like we own the name somehow more than the Canadians & Mexicans, & all those other Americans south of Panama but say it with force & the assurance that all those other Americas … Continue reading →

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sixth

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

It has been said that the dead do not speak, but they do, if the ear is attuned to their mutterings; as far as family stories go for us my mother, my grandmother, my great-grandmother, and I have been told … Continue reading →

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Mask (HH 05/12–3 haiku)

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

perfect little thief wears his bandit mask always– rascally raccoon. *** don’t look too closely her smooth features disguise pain brittle, pretty mask *** free from my true face the mask I wore blows away lighter  now, and free which … Continue reading →

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Spring fervor

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Outside the walls of my house the air is heavy and sweeter that the strawberries the tiny white flowers promise; opening just this morning & already the bees were drunk all day on nectar an hour past sunset and the night … Continue reading →

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