Monthly Archives: December 2012

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Posted on December 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

some things we are un comfort able reading the too personal center slice served bleeding on our plates meat we cut and call pink but we chew it bones and all– we are ruminants grinding pain between molars, eavesdropping a soul’s breaking and call it … Continue reading →

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the other side of sleep

Posted on December 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Most of what we seek is hidden truth that flees, but comes unbidden summoned through magic, coiled and deep– that waits the other side of sleep the pain we carry is phantom, echoed in remembered rhythm embedded in these nerves … Continue reading →

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sugar cubes and needles

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

disease has no morality and antibodies are blind to whom they protect cellular insurance bought with a wince and a cry that small pain, forgotten in minutes buys a lifetime without braces and canes, free of the hiss of ventilators or rooms … Continue reading →

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another apocalypse poem (balloons)

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I am letting time slip uncharted, minnows too small for this net to catch, but still nibbling my fingertips and gone disinterested in bait and the missed minutes fizzing and foaming up like bubbles in champagne add up to one more day … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

This illustrates perfectly why I read Jeremy, and why you should too!

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all answers were questioned

Posted on December 18, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

it is time to question all the answers that just drop into palms like peaches, ripe heavy, round sweetly complacent nothing comes this easy– nothing true, anyway like how this silence presses past why and moves into deep losing of what … Continue reading →

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sometimes you have to burn the temple down

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

sometimes you have to burn the temple down because the god kept there is too big for doors and has no way out if we have holiness left we cannot hold it here inside walls because what’s arcane wants to … Continue reading →

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