Monthly Archives: June 2012

Freud at the poetry reading (playing doctor): A duet

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

By Susan Daniels/Noel Ihebuzor The overly-perceptive doctor picks up what I throw down so easily, transparency of word, implied action, mistake the client reclines on the couch slowly unwinds, shedding layers in progressive concealment, unknowing speaking words and signs, opaque … Continue reading →

Posted in duet, Duets with Noel Ihebuzor, New Free Verse | Tagged , , | 18 Comments

crumbs

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

to give sparingly is what I do well better to keep the essential self hoarded for leaner times but you for you I break easy as bread thrown down and offered up without reservation ***second time I have used bread … Continue reading →

Posted in New Free Verse | Tagged , , | 7 Comments

rising

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

sun should heel this unteachable sky shamelessly blooming into pinks anticipating heat but waits until birds shout it all the way awake singing it day with flow into dark flocking glyphs their winged smile shapes in flying a name unpronounceable to these lips of … Continue reading →

Posted in New Free Verse | Tagged , , | 15 Comments

conjoined

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

we are not twins cut from the same womb sharing a heart so, yes we can live apart without surgical separation we can both walk away from this tangled mess and no one need die from it

Posted in New Free Verse | Tagged | 12 Comments

water: three movements (a meditation)

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

become like water clear, still, a moving mirror rippling soft and shallow become like water fall downhill in long steep steps of yielding water-ness become a wave and roar, angry force for change tear away all but the essential become … Continue reading →

Posted in New Free Verse | Tagged , , | 13 Comments

leaning evergreen (haiku chain)

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

roots could be fingers grasping the eroding bank– me, I think she bows and pauses to smile in the slow mirrored water, her branches preening

Posted in haiku, haiku chain | Tagged , , | 9 Comments

habit breaking (cycles)

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

1.  I crave so baldly yes, crave that death-giving killer of feeling cigarette that until yesterday was what saved everyone from random floating bitchiness that poisoned air as much as second-hand smoke 2.  It is not so difficult not so long … Continue reading →

Posted in New Free Verse | Tagged , | 16 Comments