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?

first-world problem

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

you pay a company to tell you what to eat to lose yourself in fractions adding up to the mass of an 8-year-old, because other companies sell food in boxes easy to cook, but hard on arteries, but few sell discrimination … Continue reading →

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snowfall

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Atrazine and estrogen pink the ground water, shifting boy to girl– bull alligators growing ovaries and double-bull frogs croaking less and dreaming tadpoles instead of sperm it’s all fem- i- niz- ation, penis lengths shrink because femi- Nazi witch doctors work below the belt, … Continue reading →

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w(Hol)l(y) or broken

Posted on February 16, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Who among us takes that name in vain when none know it’s diction, the sound of all sounds shaped before any lips were made to sing such fullness. If I heard even one syllable of that name, my mouth could not … Continue reading →

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Haiku Heights: Sugar

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

she sings of losing, that blues queen who dusts her heart with smoked sugar sad

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candy

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

she is so much craving– rainbow wrapped tooth-aching sweet vacuum easily swallowed paid passage to those red licorice whip lips stings instead of kisses and unwrapped the release melts to stain hands with stickiness some call sin soap won’t wash … Continue reading →

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Posted on February 15, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

My editor and friend from way back wrote this.

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Posted on February 15, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

George–brilliant as usual.

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