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?

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Posted on June 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

in this state of spirit locked to matter this mind, this head thinks too highly of itself separated from the rest of flesh by a thin columnar neck so we say, mind over matter and not so much spirit versus … Continue reading →

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now, you love me

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

after anger and fear, after name-calling and bleeding souls after we have torn each other like fighting wildcats or ravenous sharks you would say you love me. Well, love, what speaks from your heart is not love but terror of … Continue reading →

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because you made me smile this is yours

Posted on June 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this is yours because today you coaxed out a smile from where it hid in a corner, pale and dusty and it flew to my lips and stayed sweet because your gifts are a rush of hummingbird wings on my eyelids, a … Continue reading →

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binocular eyes forward

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I want multifaceted insect vision the world dancing in hundreds of frames fusing into what kind of picture in a mind that is more ganglion than anything or, I want to turn my head 180 degrees, owl-like and feathered to … Continue reading →

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nothing civil

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there is nothing civil in this warring eye to eye I count the raised blood vessels in your eyes/lack of sleep or too much smoke or perhaps even grief scrawling the whites with red ink loss written in a language … Continue reading →

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Creekwalking

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

My son rides a stone tortoise half risen and sunning water carved, sun-split, ice etched shell solid in laughing water cold as new rain and carving my feet, also slowly like the stones shaped like turtles but headless I erode … Continue reading →

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ocean

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

not sky but surface dances dips swells undersurface filtering light limit of swim and leap through thinness returning with gills gasping but some drink deep dive inside particulate salted thickness breathe down with them into blue gray cold warm current highways … Continue reading →

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