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?

budding

For Nelle Under February under snow like sap climbing up, up, up in a sweet we need to boil down spring is a verb happening first in crocuses

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the people are starving

and she said let them eat cake and now we feed them french fries not sprung from any revolution but rising up freer than the range of chickens ready for plucking

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she writes moons

for Mari she triangulates the moons love wears breaks mirrors of rape for seven years’ worth of splintered luck she knows death prisms to rainbows when held to the light and god is more breathed than felt but known by … Continue reading

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“Alone”

so much up I am a bubble in champagne unpopped rising drunk and redder than sunset somewhere far, far d o w n a palm tugged my string but here I am playmate to clouds

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sliver of shimmer the moon starts her twilight drift oarless into night

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Clay (final)

for T   If  I could, I would make this A measurable thing; I would breathe into it My spirit, animate this vessel While it is unwedged potential Balanced in my palms, Before that slap and press So similar to … Continue reading

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Originally posted on Reflections:
By Noel Ihebuzor   Naming is dangerous, cheap prejudice and hate, foul the skies with clammy paws and febrile strokes spraying lurid ugliness on the frames of non-consenting city walls, obscene images and messages, spewing and…

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