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?

my laugh just traveled 4,000 miles

Posted on August 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

forgive me if I stammer but my laugh just traveled 4,000 miles pinged from satellite to satellite over continents & oceans to meet your ears instantly. I am not so far from those who worship airplanes or think cameras swallow souls … Continue reading →

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her ritual

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

they need balloons in heaven she says & every year on her mother’s birthday she buys a dozen red ones & looses their ribbons all at once watching until sky swallows all that redness she calls remembering & I call … Continue reading →

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Posted on August 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

your light kindles me no need to ignite this soul already flaming

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Posted on August 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

This is perfection (and not unlike my own process), but said so softly, and so beautifully.

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kryptonite does not apply

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

you see past my half answers to where truth vibrates as if all those comic books with x-ray vision knew you could uncover everything hidden and wrote about it except you are not superman with a fatal flaw just someone who … Continue reading →

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if we had ever

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if we had ever in these seven years danced together you would know the one way I would let you lead me without question if not the only place but with heels on I am taller than you by inches … Continue reading →

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just here

Posted on August 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

we live in the bright of the sun the cupped palms of this valley holding gently everything together even the sky laughs blueness on our shoulders warmly and bends to stroke smooth his reflection in shallow pond water edged with … Continue reading →

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