Daily Archives: September 24, 2012

i hate cliches like wearing my heart on my sleeve, as if somehow that much control would be possible

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

a heart lives inside my tongue, in my fingertips, pulses through my pen & i never know what secret it will speak just for the sake of singing it & there i am, left cleaning all that unrepentant truth-telling that … Continue reading →

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haiku heights: sleepless

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

courting sleep, sheepless nothing to count down but breath from 20 to dreams ***actually, with the way my sleep pattern works, I have to count back from about 200, but too many syllables 😉

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Posted on September 24, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on eulonia country:
i’m in the bath before it is drawn the waterline rising to my ankles and only yet lukewarm. when we were kids she’d bathe us in just two inches, a wan bar of soap passed…

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intangible

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if i could stretch my spirit to where you are, i would haunt you through the door we call dreaming but it is difficult to spin a strand of self that far, so instead i will call you here sculpted of shadow where i want … Continue reading →

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