Daily Archives: May 14, 2012

the stake

I will bet this life Jeanne d’Arc heard voices and so do I:  Not angels or other spirits, but voices of women called witches or even saints after their ashes cool. But she, and they were silenced, and the murmurs I … Continue reading

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Drinking and Breathing: A duet

By Noel Ihebuzor and Susan L. Daniels Noel: Throats, though they may parch, never rust, wells never really run dry, below the dry beds arteries of spring, sleep, rustle and wait to sing all wait the call of the season, … Continue reading

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lost poem

I would put up signs asking for your return but you were not lovable; an angry poem full of disturbing beauty I wrote when I was 22 & somehow you slipped from that folder & out an open window while … Continue reading

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why we love

because I and you melt & diffuse into an us of limitless joy

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