Monthly Archives: November 2012

a proposition

Posted on November 4, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if my happy is too loud, splashing yellow-paint sun across the floor, staining it anything but sorry if i wear joy in plaids with polka-dots just for the sake of clashing will you correct me, mop up the color & quiet the … Continue reading →

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i have run those fences

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

i have run those fences inside fences, casting shadows that frame more enclosing the borders we paint sometimes on pickets friendlier somehow– that gapped country smile that seems open but hold us apart, still guarding something priceless without a sharply lettered … Continue reading →

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what are we without walls?

Posted on November 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there are things that make naked not in the strip-teases we like each layer peeled in a sighing dance with pauses for pleasure, but in blind surges that take, rip everything at once, tearing off what shields we saw cities shudder … Continue reading →

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haiku heights: nature

Posted on November 2, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

by nature, i shine a made thing, no more or less than the stars i count

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the artist & the artisan

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

my head aches the artist & the artisan clash here, where 1 plans ground cherry jam the color of honey to spread this winter over hot bread baked on a stone those days oven-heated time softens like a Dali clock while the … Continue reading →

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