Monthly Archives: June 2012

these trees lean

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

these trees lean across water that has so slowly stolen and sifted earth from their roots roots hungry and hardened flailing through air half of them, the rest cling to what is left because, rooted and legless they stand where … Continue reading →

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in the church of late morning

Posted on June 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

sunlight is sacred the clouds are whispered frozen crystal prayers taking shape as they climb heaven and bloom scent purer than incense sky is stained glass and the birds cry alleluia

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ice cream vilanelle

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Love and ice cream melt in the summer sun frozen sweetness shifts to warm honey thick, we revel, taste until pleasure is done What started in joy becomes much less fun as it melts like wax ringing round a wick … Continue reading →

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Chuck Tingley

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Hi all– Chuck is the artist I will hopefully be interviewing for the next issue of RUST.  If you find this interesting–check out his website (which is where I got this clip–pretty cool, no?).  Here it is: http://chuck-tingley.com/#home

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today’s god

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

today’s god brings heat driving, drying, sucking movement from air and burying it deep in hungry earth, this glacier gravel soil that springs up mountains under my teetering feet and yours, you visionary that gestures in tongues no words, you … Continue reading →

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dots on a map

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

GPS can translate me to a colored dot flashing enmeshed in digital webs spun from triangulation point to triangulation point that will tell you where I am, not the what or the how of it and maybe if my dot … Continue reading →

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Foothills (for Nancy)

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

so this is it, then the view outside his hospital window; the strip malls you will memorize while one day he eats, one day he will not or cannot, the almost-painted trees you will count when you can not keep counting … Continue reading →

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