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?

nightmare

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

dreams, like bones, break hard so I sleep with eyes open awake, I can blink

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Posted on March 7, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

One more thing–all you wonderful people who offered up work! Boomie, I gave S. yours, and Noel, we are all set too.

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the lost commandment (and a nod to TS)

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Damn Israelites and their habit of melting jewelry into idols in the valley, while over their heads a voice that burned bushes, hardened hearts and spat frogs escalated to a shout shaking mountains: too close to the real, it was easier to kneel to a made … Continue reading →

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Her god is sunflower yellow; mine laughs

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

for the yellow lady and KB Her god is sunflower yellow, the color space in the spectrum a deity might surf—a god of dandelions and honey, darkening to the amber of petals when they fade. He says, with cynicism, if … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 6, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on shrinks arent cheap:
1. Life is a shallow pool. And the younger you are, the shallower it is; though you think its depths are endless. A sunflower is god, because it is yellow.  The fucking blue sky…

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April isn’t cruel

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

April isn’t cruel. March is the bitch dressed in ice and mud, surrendering patches of green the sun frees, not with heat but insistent light. Sap runs now, the tips of trees greening despite the snap still in the air, … Continue reading →

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V is for Violence and Violation

Posted on March 5, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

By Noel Ihebuzor and Susan Daniels You return always to your ritual Of force, foaming like fits of fury Heart of steel, to stages of stone, long assumed gone, Dormant but dominant Clenched fists of metal rusting Behind its lustre of … Continue reading →

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