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?

drought

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this creek cannot flow heat and sun drink it to a series of shallow ponds dammed by rocks & today this body is like that chain of dying & drying water ovaries frantically blooming eggs their children before they die … Continue reading →

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the shoelace game

Posted on July 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

first, my small fingers untie his laces–he smiles ties them up again this was our first game he made tight bows to stop me and I freed them all each new knot a complex duel of digits ***thought I would … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 13, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on Boomie Bol:
Strum me like a guitar Play me softly up and down Like a Spanish melody Soothing to the soul Pleasing to the ears Only your ears Play me like a guitar Hard and raw Like…

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Posted on July 13, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Jeremy–Wow.

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vibrating one music

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

we play each other your fingers my strings my mouth your instrument all one in this us this resonating joy we practice shaped with lips & fingertips

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cellular tablets (the human genome project)

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

let fingers trace the lines of erosion that write us here, or here, the genome the new text of our beginnings scripted in DNA chemical language that says less of  genesis and more of meiosis how primal threads separate, split and … Continue reading →

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alive upside down

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

let’s live a day breaking Newton’s law shift roof to floor in child-like play & we can fall out of bed to the ceiling & maybe swim in sky the way fish do water & it will not matter how deep we dive until … Continue reading →

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