Monthly Archives: August 2012

the gift: a huitain

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

The mailbox teased, withholding for nine days this gift of images; a world, a mind, a map to your soul, in a written maze I follow until dizzy in it.  I sift through the silt of your words, and I mine … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 16, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I hear summer chime inside cricket songs, but still September scents air unripe, crisp, stony I taste chardonnay with each drawn green apple breath

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weaving the impossible

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

interesting, this; how we move separately but in unison, a choreographed spontaneity that we meet and learn from each other & defy miles in the way these throats open as one singing voice braided smoothly, or threads strung on opposing edges of … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Guys–you need to read Leo.

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Posted on August 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

This is–perfection!

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the land tortoise

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if stone had eyes they would be these two unblinking pebbles on this head tilting to watch me balanced on this small dinosaur neck curved in an S then straightening to an I she is writing me in cursive though … Continue reading →

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whatever color heron (s)he is

Posted on August 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this is why I wait on the bank mouth stung with the acid of tomatoes to watch this heron my aunt called blue but my mother insisted was officially green argument never settled & unimportant to this bird stilting in … Continue reading →

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