Monthly Archives: August 2012

if you were to wife me

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if you were to wife me then I would husband you & together we would become nouns to those verbs

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my mother’s bouquet

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I tried to dry the roses out of the florist bouquet my uncle sent; pale pink, like lipstick for little girls barely blushing a dozen of those matching her jacket interspersed with baby’s breath like the color was planned when it … Continue reading →

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mourning (for Joan)

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

that feeling does not dissipate when ashes scatter it stays to hold us after arms are gone it is the words she cannot say fluttering beneath her sternum that voice caged stretching in her chest for three years sighs as she … Continue reading →

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hyperbolic acid

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this country was founded on God and nature he says but which God and whose nature should we return to to revive this staggering bled out animal not yet hamstrung but close to it I shout back at a radio … Continue reading →

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my laugh just traveled 4,000 miles

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

forgive me if I stammer but my laugh just traveled 4,000 miles pinged from satellite to satellite over continents & oceans to meet your ears instantly. I am not so far from those who worship airplanes or think cameras swallow souls … Continue reading →

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her ritual

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

they need balloons in heaven she says & every year on her mother’s birthday she buys a dozen red ones & looses their ribbons all at once watching until sky swallows all that redness she calls remembering & I call … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

your light kindles me no need to ignite this soul already flaming

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