Monthly Archives: January 2013

Maternity

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

So much we call memory is us rewriting ourselves as the center of a story, when perhaps we were peripheral to something bigger unfolding just beneath our own skins, and unknown. In this story I am both central and peripheral: … Continue reading →

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01/14/2013 small stone

Posted on January 12, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Dogs can whine stacatto–the black lab jittering in the cat section of the waiting room has dotted flights to sing–a song with teeth in it.

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Posted on January 11, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on journalread:
Acosta’s ‘Crayons’ mural recalls Sandy Hook « Pied Type.

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1/11/13 small stone

Posted on January 11, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

I don’t need to have the last word or the first.  I must own each one I have been given in between.

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Kintsugi

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

The bowl we wheeled, fired, and glazed when broken, became the metaphor for us; a shining heaviness on my lap, unfit for water or fruit fusing again, what rejoins is no longer flawed, but deeper; our story, refired to epic … Continue reading →

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Before

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Thanks KB Did she dance or fall, steps choreographed By gods or devils, before the moon’s birth; Her hands stained by fruit already bitten? I cannot know, because I am no Eve. I do not remember innocence. I was never … Continue reading →

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