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 dVerse Anthology is here!

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Frank Watson has done it again–the new dVerse Anthology is out, and one of my poems is in it.  Don’t buy it for that, though.  There are LOADS of wonderful poems written by amazing poets in here.  I have to … Continue reading →

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The Look

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on A Prayer Like Gravity:
Do you look beautiful, Do you look beautifully, or Do you look beauty fully in the face and tell it to fuck right off? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My beautiful wife hates to have her picture…

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Unplugged, no signal, the place I step off the grid and into this other web that holds me when I remember and when I forget.

Posted on August 3, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

I walk in green; fern-scented, loam deep, where footprints spell names:  Deer, fox, coyote, heron, woman. There is a grail some call holy I am hunting.  A poetry that speaks one word, sparer than pig and i spring rain, but … Continue reading →

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on finding a fragment of a cross in Turkey

Posted on August 2, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Show me wood and I will say there were 10,000 crosses but my belief is not bound up in trees I am old as shale layered under my feet and young as air what I know hums in molecules I … Continue reading →

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Let’s suspend disbelief

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Let’s suspend disbelief, hang it like a moon-shaped charm on a bracelet, ballast for a wrist ’70s style; silver poodles, stretched glass cats, beaded birthstones and initials linked and rattling unlikely music. ***we are trying our hands at Twitter poetry today at dVerse.

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peacock

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Shake your feathers at me and I will want those hundred eyes turned only towards me, because we are such greedy things, squabbling for the prettiest mate and ripest fruit. Shake your feathers at me and I will wink back at all … Continue reading →

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the creek bank

Posted on July 27, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

The men pull steelhead from this water, long as my arm and I wonder where they find them in all this shallowness. I fished, once, licensed and ankle deep in morning on the edge of Rainbow Lake, hooking one small … Continue reading →

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