metacontention

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Language, in collective
and unspoken
is common as a string of diatoms
catching sun under waves

amusing in symmetry, planktoned;
singular voices twined and twinned
in murmuring/measured in microns

stored in card catalogs of (dis)content
filtered through digital baleen
the way whales feed, licking words
that together shift tides red:

remembering the taste
of one voice,
a singular, killing smallness
all is swallowed.

About Susan L Daniels

I am a firm believer that politics are personal, that faith is expressed through action, and that life is something that must be loved and lived authentically--or why bother with any of it?
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12 Responses to metacontention

  1. Paul F. Lenzi says:
    June 10, 2013 at 4:18 pm

    I’m a sucker for a seafarin’ tale

  2. davidtrudel says:
    June 10, 2013 at 4:46 pm

    Your ocean of words is in better shape than the seven seas!

  3. unfetteredbs says:
    June 10, 2013 at 5:08 pm

    My favorite line: catching sun under waves

    amusing in symmetry.

    I do love your words Susan.

  4. nelle says:
    June 10, 2013 at 6:29 pm

    Complex if short, and I suspect I’d have a different impression from each read.

  5. Julia Dean-Richards says:
    June 11, 2013 at 4:20 am

    I read this one out loud. Hmm, I don’t usually do that – it was good.

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