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?

lake effect

snow on the equinox is silent, still, mulish; not the last grasp of winter in ditches and the shaded side of trees– this is cool rebellion written in Christmas-card perfect flakes slow and soft in their spiral, pale feathers lining … Continue reading

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Originally posted on The Belle Jar:
I don’t have to tell you that Steubenville is all over the news. I don’t have to tell you that it’s a fucking joke that Trent Mays and Ma’lik Richmond, the two teenagers convicted…

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At Another Time

If we came back as cetaceans, I could hear our rhythm cycle from your throat, threads of song spun pure under water, independent of breath made only for me, and it would float in focused waves to my ears.  Soft, my answer would ripple … Continue reading

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Important. Long, but necessary.

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Originally posted on Bart Wolffe:
A TEMPORARY DISTRACTION Just to the left where the wind is leaning On the lines of a looming tree’s barren boughs Murmurs the pigeon, my solace and companion, Greeting me again today as yesterday From…

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More on orange lilies

Those flowers looping my great-grandfather’s headstone were the tigerest of lilies, outrageous tongues licking the hellfire fade of his name from granite, harder than he was when his mother begged him to drop his King James in deathbed drama, and he wouldn’t. … Continue reading

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lilies and ireland

tiger lilies, proud cacophony of orange can’t hide green stems

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