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?

insomnia

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

my eyes are open windows uncurtained painting naked beams across the ceiling shot from unshaded bulbs impossible to dream inside that brilliance & if I close my lids the heat thrown off by this spontaneous internal combustion will fuse them closed … Continue reading →

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Shinwari

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

She squats, entombed already inside that burka, gray linen worn as the stones and soil beneath her flat sandals stares into the treeline, past it her end playing out away from that greenness and silent, meeting it but she is not … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on the poet's billow:
Joy Harjo’s ‘Crazy Brave’ Path To Finding Her Voice In Crazy Brave, Joy Harjo recounts how her early years — an abusive stepfather, the hardships of teen motherhood — suppressed her artistic gifts…

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whale fall (a long funeral)

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this floating largeness of mind when he fades he falls gently rocked by currents to rest on an unquiet floor murmuring news of flesh to fill these many mouths bloomed out of famine who swim to his feast of bones lasting … Continue reading →

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just get over it already

Posted on July 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there is no alternate ending where instead of offering up our palms in a mudra of helplessness or surrender we get the love back watching you piece this broken us together, like a jigsaw but with sharp edges and pieces … Continue reading →

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woman with two faces

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Those 2 first women Eve and Pandora if they had met after the fruit was bitten and the jar opened what would they say to each other sisters in shame betrayed by inner natures so similar one engineered from dust … Continue reading →

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mind over mind

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

not mind over matter that mind mastering flesh that is subject to it anyway with its quiet cravings but mind over mind in a wrestling match limbic system shouting over the reasonable cortex its wants and self jumping between poles … Continue reading →

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