Monthly Archives: December 2012

skank/goddess (not a nice girl)

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this is raw woman, unfiltered like her Pall Malls and not quite housebroken sharpening her acrylics on the good furniture the kind you don’t give your address because you just know she’d drive across a continent without restroom breaks shouting … Continue reading →

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the girl who said she broke her imagination

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

children speak poetry before they know words for it, like the time my daughter said she was running bumped her head and broke her imagination I kissed the bones keeping that magic where her curls are tightest and told her no … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 31, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on eulonia country:
hi everyone i am putting the monkey on sale from now on out partially because of cost of food i would rather have the sandbar of my body in the warm water asking for depth…

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a poet’s non-novena

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there are four patron saints of poetry and none of them mine which makes it less religion and more direct relationship to what’s divine without intercessors or intermediaries I get my calling from the mouth of G-d unfiltered and always, … Continue reading →

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2012 in review–thank you guys!

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 38,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this … Continue reading →

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Sutra (for three nuts and a squirrel)

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I read a book once and I will write around its name and call it simply The ways to make love and they are listed: how to kiss every part of the body feed the self on the river traced by the … Continue reading →

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iatrogenesis

Posted on December 30, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

These are our new churches where life is declared done or pulled out squalling with that first breath forced with a slap on the ass and the heart’s calligraphy is charted for the elect that can read its flights in ritual healing … Continue reading →

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