Monthly Archives: January 2013

1/5/13

Posted on January 5, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

If I am still enough the four colors that are here will perch on my fingers.  If I am still enough, the shadows that are blue in midday will curl in my lap and sleep, growl only when I stand … Continue reading →

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the epistemology of roses

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

I believe bloom and know of red and have a passing acquaintance with thorns but there is more to this being a rose than what’s visible and I know nothing of what those roots touch

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that man who does not worship at the altar of two

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

I’ve never smelled perfume on his collar that’s not mine or tasted another’s kiss skimmed over his lips– still, men in my life have had mistresses– that slut work that bitch scotch that whore crack easier to name a Nancy because I … Continue reading →

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what snowmen know

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

through I write my name there is no permanence to what’s written in snow

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1/4/12 small stone

Posted on January 4, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

In the long dark of this tilt away from heat we call winter, I do not know what my eyes are hungrier for–green or the sun.

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phoenix

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Thanks, Mike I want to sing in flights of us– not from this tuneless sob you call instrument and I call broken flute; not from this stave that stalls, half-crafted you call talent and I call wasted; I want to … Continue reading →

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windows

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

I’m no window but I do allow light to pass through this glassed body a shining target for stones to ping spiderwebs splintering the surface but only to almost broken clinging to whole letting cold in where the heart pulses … Continue reading →

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