Monthly Archives: May 2012

how to make it to 45 (& beyond)

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

We are not victims, overwhelmed by being; the pure force of life pouring oceans over our heads & us drowning, overwhelmed because of it– No, we have learned how to swim with, over, under & across currents that pull gentler … Continue reading →

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word-working: smithing or singing

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

each word, when spoken carries music & form & when strung together they can beome symphonies, or links of a chain when I was a teenager, & wrote horrible poetry, I used to hum while I wrote– twisting sound like … Continue reading →

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Aryn’s Dream

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

small, flat feet frantic in their rush through the dark hallway; breathless, he tells me how his nightmare about a monster shook him awake & he is here now, safe sleeping between us; so sweet, how his big-boy head still … Continue reading →

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my sister’s birthday

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Your eyes opened 47 years ago, May 9, the perfect Mother’s Day present born a month early. I knew this story before I had words to tell it myself, heard it repeated by our mother in the litany of births … Continue reading →

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Eden

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

We are no first man & first woman in an ideal garden– no, you & I have fallen several times; this last, we fell together with eyes open, aware of the price of love & willing to pay it. We knew … Continue reading →

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what’s for dinner

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

you would think a poet & a musician would have more to say to each other at the end of the day than this: I am making lentils & rice for dinner, unless you had something else planned? Yes, at … Continue reading →

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2 summer haiku

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I wrote these in 2010, on Gardenweb, so I guess those 17 years weren’t completely dry.  Marie’s poems regarding Japanese beetles tripped my memory, and I went and dug them up to share…. It’s a little early for both pole … Continue reading →

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