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Author Archives: Susan L Daniels
like a toothache, like herpes
What can I say here. I had to revisit the poem from 2012, because the man that inspired this told me yesterday that he missed me. TMI? Perhaps. I still really, really like this poem. If I say … Continue reading
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Tagged addiction, alcohol, crack, enjoy, pissed off poet, poetry, STDs
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March is not spring
March is not the spring promised in seed catalogs other places here, it is the unbloomed, precrocus want of mud under ice a softening, finally naked but still waiting
burial in february
sometimes love is less valentine and more a wait for melt for softening of surface dirt under snow to bury what’s dead sometimes love is measuring how deep to cover the bones, and how wide a space we need to … Continue reading
what it is
This is not a map through the maze or a blueprint to what I build it is a shell singing the movement of what is possible in emptiness put it to your ear listen it is what this heart knows
gravity
you don’t see me but I am here spinning in a flurry we might call a dance if we were together in this so light it is not falling but a spiral race to earth
the free market (in memory of my sister, 05/09/1965-02-21/1995)
the year our garden gave too much we sold zucchini at the road five for a dollar my father’s farmer friend drove slow by our table, pretending to cry as we stole his business and we two (capitalists disguised as … Continue reading
Beneath
You are always skimming the surface of things. If it were summer I would call you dragonfly and love you for it but this is winter and ice grows deeper than the flowers prismed on my window thick enough to … Continue reading
Susan Daniels Poetry 