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?

Beets (Semi-Rant and Recipe)

Okay, this is a different kind of post for me.  If I had a cooking or gardening blog (which I do not), it would be more suitable there, but here goes nothing! Beets.  They are absolutely gorgeous, aren’t they?  Those … Continue reading

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astronauts

There are degrees drawn in the heart echoing lines calculating the absoluteness of  zero, scaling to meet the incalescence swaddling a birth of stars. We are long past nova or theoretical lack of motion, drift weightless;  serene, wrapped in vacuum. I need … Continue reading

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the dead don’t love

The dead don’t love the way we know it but they yearn, a sealed sweet sleeping like jarred honey inside pyramids until what’s clay breaks, releasing open and live what sustains lost under all that dust

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Post-Racialism in a World of Niggers and Crackers

Originally posted on Sweepy Jean Explores the (Webby) World:
I continue to be intrigued by this idea of post racialism and am still trying to figure out exactly what that looks like. Some people are afraid, and rightly so, that…

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some days

Some days must be met mouth open, gasped to swallow a heat that stains mouths shameless. Dizzy on sweet, aimless as bees tasting turned nectar we circle the day.  This is the dance. We know it, choreographed not in steps but hours, … Continue reading

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We are too far from dust

We are too far from dust in this high bed for dreaming. I am no princess, sleepless for the sake of a cowpea under a mountain of mattresses. Make love to me on sisal. Twigs and all, let me sleep close … Continue reading

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