Daily Archives: December 22, 2012

Damascus (with Nicholas Gagnier)

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

On world maps, this crescent just attacked was formerly a home; those bones were a house and for the people within, this road was more than a convoy route. Collateral damage is not measured in numbers here; it is counted … Continue reading →

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Parrot My Foot (Intimate Imitations)- Duet With Boomie Bol

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Parrot my foot and imitate these hands shivering timbers from deep down inside This talk of love your empty 4 letter word speaking to my foot my hand responds as needed My mouth mirrors yours in speech or kissing but … Continue reading →

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Christmas, 1994

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Florida didn’t seem like Christmas to me, snowless and palmed, the only white the sugared sand beaches of the Gulf where I chose shells to fill wire baskets for my mother and sister I strung shells with peacock feathers, crafting dreamcatchers … Continue reading →

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Nineveh

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

what I have to say is old standing in a new place risen over temples to broken gods we don’t know but what is stone waits under sand blown through it for four thousand years the names whispered in the … Continue reading →

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12/22/2012

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

days are never important in advance– but this one, the day after the apocalypse that didn’t carries more weight than the snow I woke to the world is still here and so are most of us but not all that woke … Continue reading →

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Haiku Heights Prompt: Snow

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

pieces of sky fall sifted confectioner sweet– we stick out our tongues

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Shamhat

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

two miles away from you may your lover tremble with excitement, one mile away may he bite his lip in anticipation I would have journeyed to him unbidden, my path from the temple fated and traced by sandaled feet, dusty but still … Continue reading →

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