Monthly Archives: November 2012

friday-night cannibal

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

her hair is pinned up with last year’s bones– the ones she chewed and shaved to thinness her teeth graze your lower lip hard to tell through all that shining sharpness if she gives a kiss or takes your taste

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there they are

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there they are circled, blue those days i should have learned you under my touch, crossed off on the calendar & unrealized

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scales in the key of stone

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

skimming the skin of things always in dragonfly lightness just brushing the real with these wings do you know what carries us, flowing above the elemental? there are layers over layers & they are named i have seen the veins … Continue reading →

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identity

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

i find you thieving me in small pieces but better this & still in separate skins we did not swim unthinking into wholeness– we could be anglerfish grown together, you fused into me like a scar not cut but acquired we could … Continue reading →

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juarez (some then but mostly now)

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

my parents pose in black & white in a styleline convertible their saturday drive to juarez for tequila & cheap newports the place is the same just 60 years older. peeled paint & american factories blight what was spoiled already … Continue reading →

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my armistice

Posted on November 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

i can give 2 minutes at 11 o’clock– the first minute silent to remember 20 million dead the second minute quiet to respect the pain of the living that mourned them my sacrifice small in comparison one wreath for so … Continue reading →

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Silence: The conversation continues

Posted on November 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

By Susan L. Daniels and Noel A. Ihebuzor S: it echoes– this pause before words weighted breath N: It speaks loud the empty spaces between words S: those moments minds falter before sharing truth N: truth haltered for so long, … Continue reading →

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