Author Archives: Susan L Daniels

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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?

englyn for Roger Rivard

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Roger Rivard’s so sleazy he said some girls rape easy smirked between friends, all breezy ***my offering for Dverse.  We are playing with englyns today.  The above is a soldier’s englyn.

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writing on stone with water

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

writing on stone with water is an exercise of impermanence– what is true and brought out dissipates. what is written by water on stone whether shaped with force or tenderness unbecomes as fast as it becomes; that first letter vanishes as … Continue reading →

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awakening

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

what do i know this moment rising from a dream still swimming behind eyelids i keep closed awareness weaves itself the shuttle/my breath pulse stretching throat to speech this my sunrise

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vengeance movies nonwithstanding

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

  i want to write poetry about chrysanthemums licking yellow & bronze along sidewalks, & rivaling leaves in their burn or how my creek, frosted clear now from algae carries those leaves in fleets of color into that great lake, … Continue reading →

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day of the girl (the sun goddesses remembered)

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I am tired of differences– tell me again how this body is pulled by the moon in its tides, hormones alternately softening minds and sharpening tongues as if somehow female minds are less because ovaries steep thoughts in estrogen until they … Continue reading →

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the price of a voice (for Malala)

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

when a child speaks what makes her words so dangerous you would gag her with lead? what code of honor that is spoken or written exists for women or their children in this place where girls are burned by acid … Continue reading →

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the math of cats

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

cats have a geometry difficult to capture in lines that soften & go fluid tapering to sharp angles perhaps it is best to express motion in points on a graph as they calculate the precise distance from sill to piano … Continue reading →

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