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 raccoon (2 haiku)

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

phantom flash of stripe masked bandit stuffs strawberries into laughing mouth paws counterfit hands shaped for stealing tomatoes prints proof he was here

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Gender Games

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

you said, you wear the pants an accusation, as if yielding is female and providing direction strictly male, as if gender holds importance for us tradition has no place here; we are simply 2 people stumbling toward family any way … Continue reading →

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Raising tomatoes and Cain–a meditation

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

“There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so self conscience, so apparently moral…But I won’t have it. The world is wilder than that … Continue reading →

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April

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I usually lack the discipline to write true haiku, preferring bare-bones free verse I fondly call bastardized haiku, but when I had a 5-syllable image in my mind this morning, I decided to go with it.  Happy spring, all! outside … Continue reading →

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Easter

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Last year I spent this time holding the thin hands of a dying woman.  I brought flowers from mother’s garden:  hyacinth, daffodils, forsythia.  It rained, as it rains today; water presses my hair flat and I walk, remembering. I could … Continue reading →

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Posted on April 17, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

ice embraces azalea branches velvet buds held unmoving (insects in amber)

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Posted on April 17, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I could tell you of times poems split my skull the moment of conception or the hours I pace before real pain begins pushed from inside myself words come screaming in rivers of blood. My head hurts. You read my … Continue reading →

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