Monthly Archives: July 2012

whale fall (a long funeral)

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this floating largeness of mind when he fades he falls gently rocked by currents to rest on an unquiet floor murmuring news of flesh to fill these many mouths bloomed out of famine who swim to his feast of bones lasting … Continue reading →

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just get over it already

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there is no alternate ending where instead of offering up our palms in a mudra of helplessness or surrender we get the love back watching you piece this broken us together, like a jigsaw but with sharp edges and pieces … Continue reading →

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woman with two faces

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Those 2 first women Eve and Pandora if they had met after the fruit was bitten and the jar opened what would they say to each other sisters in shame betrayed by inner natures so similar one engineered from dust … Continue reading →

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mind over mind

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

not mind over matter that mind mastering flesh that is subject to it anyway with its quiet cravings but mind over mind in a wrestling match limbic system shouting over the reasonable cortex its wants and self jumping between poles … Continue reading →

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Versatile Blogger Award

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Thank you, Soraya, for nominating me for this award!  I am nominating 6 people for this award–and there are many more deserving peeps out there–but here are 6 off the top of my head! NOMINATIONS: Eulonia Country Dreamsoftwilight Jomul7 Tracie … Continue reading →

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how?

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

you must have learned this somewhere, this means of understanding an idiot savant who jabbers words into poetry past the point of “getting” it and somehow tiptoed into knowing how it begins, your finger on the pulse of my process

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if you listened you would know forgiveness

Posted on July 7, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if you would listen to my voice and not the tape hissing in your head from a thousand conversations and none of them with me if you would hear my words and not talk over them before my mouth opens arguing … Continue reading →

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