Monthly Archives: May 2012

The elements

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

#1:  Fire Because fire warms & is the strength of the sun that ultimately nurtures everything, if relationships are elemental, then love is best expressed as fire & must be fed, even as it feeds us. #2:  Earth Matrix of all living, she … Continue reading →

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The storm

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the air in this room carries a charge– I can smell your anger like ozone rolling before a thunderstorm, back straight, shoulders square, I am ready for that first flash, hotter than the surface of the sun to strike its polar opposite … Continue reading →

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the gift

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

For mother’s day, 3 months after my Dad died, & 1 year after her own mother passed I made my mother dinner from her 1959 better homes & garden cookbook with the cardboard gingham cover I was 12 & proud … Continue reading →

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communication (haiku triptych)

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I am uncertain how 3 words breathed in passion more than we spoke them remain strong enough to hold us together still despite differences With what words then, love can I possibly free you? Can they be unsaid?

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the beautiful?

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

American, say it with a swagger & with confidence; like we own the name somehow more than the Canadians & Mexicans, & all those other Americans south of Panama but say it with force & the assurance that all those other Americas … Continue reading →

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sixth

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

It has been said that the dead do not speak, but they do, if the ear is attuned to their mutterings; as far as family stories go for us my mother, my grandmother, my great-grandmother, and I have been told … Continue reading →

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Mask (HH 05/12–3 haiku)

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

perfect little thief wears his bandit mask always– rascally raccoon. *** don’t look too closely her smooth features disguise pain brittle, pretty mask *** free from my true face the mask I wore blows away lighter  now, and free which … Continue reading →

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