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 gift

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

For mother’s day, 3 months after my Dad died, & 1 year after her own mother passed I made my mother dinner from her 1959 better homes & garden cookbook with the cardboard gingham cover I was 12 & proud … Continue reading →

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communication (haiku triptych)

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I am uncertain how 3 words breathed in passion more than we spoke them remain strong enough to hold us together still despite differences With what words then, love can I possibly free you? Can they be unsaid?

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the beautiful?

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

American, say it with a swagger & with confidence; like we own the name somehow more than the Canadians & Mexicans, & all those other Americans south of Panama but say it with force & the assurance that all those other Americas … Continue reading →

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sixth

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

It has been said that the dead do not speak, but they do, if the ear is attuned to their mutterings; as far as family stories go for us my mother, my grandmother, my great-grandmother, and I have been told … Continue reading →

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Mask (HH 05/12–3 haiku)

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

perfect little thief wears his bandit mask always– rascally raccoon. *** don’t look too closely her smooth features disguise pain brittle, pretty mask *** free from my true face the mask I wore blows away lighter  now, and free which … Continue reading →

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Spring fervor

Posted on May 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Outside the walls of my house the air is heavy and sweeter that the strawberries the tiny white flowers promise; opening just this morning & already the bees were drunk all day on nectar an hour past sunset and the night … Continue reading →

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Within Calling Without: A Duet

Posted on May 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

By Noel Ihebuzor and Susan Daniels outside my window, tree frogs and crickets are in full spring shout, like calling to like until they meet and are silent from within, behind my window, I hear their calls, calls from within, … Continue reading →

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