Monthly Archives: May 2012

no boys allowed at the slumber party

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

All the girls that call themselves women buzz like bees circling a bouquet because the topic turns to love, to true love, to the love of your life & how they knew they found it & with whom. I am suddenly 16, … Continue reading →

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try not to think about this too much

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

“It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination… If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn’t believe the world existed.” — Annie Dillard … Continue reading →

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trust is a learned thing

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

trust is a learned thing: that something so big can name, can love, can nurture one this small dry tears with a kiss & stitch together a torn heart with a smile it is known by infants as something real, … Continue reading →

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the stake

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

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

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

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

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

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

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

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

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