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?

volleys

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

sitting on the edge of the green that feels more like carpet than something live; grass tweezed and groomed into carpeted submission we wait for lit hissed trails into new nightfall to bloom into confetti and smoke scarlet and silver … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 5, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on Susan Daniels Poetry:
this was no Pentecost tongues of fire wrapping the faithful; simply a baptismal service where she waited in line with the 12-year-olds, but she waited 42 years to step into water chest high her hand gripping the…

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4th

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

In honor of the day we thumbed our noses at the known and stepped off into independence, I  give you….Woodie Guthrie

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complements

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

kissing you would be how mirror lips touch like ( and ) parentheses taste murmuring together one shared sweetness

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spam haiku

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

fused from the center some wonderful entropy lights the core of us ***now, which of you brilliant people can tell me the phrase I found in my spam that prompted this haiku?

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in our place

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I guess we feminist woman-loving/man-hating child devouring witches of women (which I have been told I am, just for having a voice and a mind, and not hiding either) no longer know our place and we need to be schooled on who … Continue reading →

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Tom Waits

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

The Piano Has Been Drinking

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