Monthly Archives: September 2012

Haiku heights: footprints

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

these hoof prints cloven evidence hunters seek

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canon (the important thing)

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there is a gospel of mary on a fifth-century papyrus that is not canon & an infancy gospel of thomas where the child Jesus rolled 12 sparrows from clay & spit. they flew away, singing.  not everything old is true, & … Continue reading →

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Posted on September 26, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on Kvenna ráð:
© Marie Marshall.

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falling (for NPS)

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

you burned your wedding dress, but you stayed to braid your fingers through his, until the pain stopped and now you are unknotting, yielding & opening to air in the slow float parachutes know if only for a moment before gravity … Continue reading →

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haiku heights prompt: paper boat

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Susan L Daniels
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i hate cliches like wearing my heart on my sleeve, as if somehow that much control would be possible

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

a heart lives inside my tongue, in my fingertips, pulses through my pen & i never know what secret it will speak just for the sake of singing it & there i am, left cleaning all that unrepentant truth-telling that … Continue reading →

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haiku heights: sleepless

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

courting sleep, sheepless nothing to count down but breath from 20 to dreams ***actually, with the way my sleep pattern works, I have to count back from about 200, but too many syllables 😉

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