Monthly Archives: June 2012

for you

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Dreaming I will wake walking with you & waking I will carry your name a secret kept under my tongue that begs to be shouted

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For Zoe

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if sometimes you are loud, my daughter it is because those three continents you spring from shout together in one voice, uniquely yours, braided into one note, a history, sometimes bitter but purified, distilled & blended into your beauty, & … Continue reading →

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Great Horned Owl

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Hunger hunts tonight winged silhouette under stars silent midnight glide

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busting up cliches

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if it takes 2 to tango what happens when 1 detaches drifts from dancer to audience watches her partner ply those set patterns of basic outside partner forward 1-2-3 then slide leading himself that tango no longer suggestive but set … Continue reading →

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haiku: process

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

formed before I write the poem in all things finds me breathless and waiting

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our chemistry

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this mad science passion, heated & distilled captured by drips into a flask left to age & softened by dust settling on the surface darkened by time its contents when opened should sublimate to something pure & uncatchable love (?)

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the heaviness after rain

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

creek full to the limit kisses the high stone banks & bleeds into the woods even air is denser, sweeter more sipped than breathed & everything green grown sleek with water saturated from the roots up yesterday’s thirst pale memory … Continue reading →

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