Monthly Archives: August 2013

The new dVerse Anthology is here!

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Frank Watson has done it again–the new dVerse Anthology is out, and one of my poems is in it.  Don’t buy it for that, though.  There are LOADS of wonderful poems written by amazing poets in here.  I have to … Continue reading →

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The Look

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on A Prayer Like Gravity:
Do you look beautiful, Do you look beautifully, or Do you look beauty fully in the face and tell it to fuck right off? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My beautiful wife hates to have her picture…

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Unplugged, no signal, the place I step off the grid and into this other web that holds me when I remember and when I forget.

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

I walk in green; fern-scented, loam deep, where footprints spell names:  Deer, fox, coyote, heron, woman. There is a grail some call holy I am hunting.  A poetry that speaks one word, sparer than pig and i spring rain, but … Continue reading →

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on finding a fragment of a cross in Turkey

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Show me wood and I will say there were 10,000 crosses but my belief is not bound up in trees I am old as shale layered under my feet and young as air what I know hums in molecules I … Continue reading →

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Let’s suspend disbelief

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Let’s suspend disbelief, hang it like a moon-shaped charm on a bracelet, ballast for a wrist ’70s style; silver poodles, stretched glass cats, beaded birthstones and initials linked and rattling unlikely music. ***we are trying our hands at Twitter poetry today at dVerse.

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