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?

windows

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

I’m no window but I do allow light to pass through this glassed body a shining target for stones to ping spiderwebs splintering the surface but only to almost broken clinging to whole letting cold in where the heart pulses … Continue reading →

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the antonym of corn

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Corn bread’s in the oven and yes I ground the seed myself, absent of nuance because what’s mundane feeds and if this is my mask, it was not made but found; ring-bound features freed by flint, the way my kin … Continue reading →

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2:30 a.m. small stone

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Some early mornings hit deep in the plexus.  I’d say solar plexus, but I am moonblind.

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pauses

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

el(lips)es yours/mine parenthetic punctuated kiss that trails and stretches want to … or maybe after all ! that curve into each other almost of spooning (( )) into the . sleep

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snapping rules like rubber bands

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

unfairly, the adverb carries responsibility for laxity in poetry as if every -ly lazily falls into a slot active language deserves but isn’t all language live and if I don’t use these tools properly writing a poem will seem like building … Continue reading →

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small stone 1/2/13

Posted on January 2, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

snow strikes snow with the kiss of butterfly wings or the sound leaves make spiraled from the maple– sighed echoes of other seasons set gently in ice

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Posted on January 1, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on Paula Acton:
(Written in response to Susan Daniels poem which you can read here Skank/Goddess (not a nice girl) I don’t normally write in response to other peoples posts but the image she created has stayed with…

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