Daily Archives: July 9, 2012

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on the poet's billow:
Joy Harjo’s ‘Crazy Brave’ Path To Finding Her Voice In Crazy Brave, Joy Harjo recounts how her early years — an abusive stepfather, the hardships of teen motherhood — suppressed her artistic gifts…

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whale fall (a long funeral)

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this floating largeness of mind when he fades he falls gently rocked by currents to rest on an unquiet floor murmuring news of flesh to fill these many mouths bloomed out of famine who swim to his feast of bones lasting … Continue reading →

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just get over it already

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there is no alternate ending where instead of offering up our palms in a mudra of helplessness or surrender we get the love back watching you piece this broken us together, like a jigsaw but with sharp edges and pieces … Continue reading →

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