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?

the new lot’s wife

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if I look back once let it not be salt that dissolves that is all that is left of me standing here but a stronger substance, let me become diamond hardness a core that scratches iron but prismatic, sparkling, and … Continue reading →

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sex in the third person

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if I and you shifted to she and he when we should be just us lost in the heat of this we fusing there would be no true union just she filtering feeling through a camera lens a voyeur assessing performance … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 1, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Yes, yes–a thousand times yes! Read this people… And eat better….

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faces on a wall (inspired by Chuck Tingley’s freestyle painting video)

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

graffiti eyes and mouths borrow form from the wall and, lacking something like enough hunger, they become bases for new faces sprayed over and rising from each other generations of cheekbones and jawlines rising for a moment then overlapped smiling (or is … Continue reading →

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the art of ripples

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

by whose hand does wind become a gentle paintbrush wildly spreading light?

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Posted on July 1, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this monkey brain that runs me understands some things but not how to process the spirit in you recognizing mine and how these spirits can dance together, not waiting for formal introductions and cavort, laughing at our slower minds and … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 1, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on eulonia country:
when you put trust in the river good things start swimming toward your outstretched finger- ferns reaching digging pulling up mud by the root. do you know our names are written on the tongues of…

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