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?

grist

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

tell me again how you are not grain to be ground down that already cracked these stones cannot mill you into anything finer & maybe outside reason i will love the whole into you again from all these fragments

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Haiku Heights Prompt: Desert (two meanings & two pronunciations)

Posted on November 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

1. no dry is deeper sun steals water from our mouths sieves our cactus skin 2. you leave me empty & broken, the robin’s egg craving its yolk

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dinners

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there have been so many holiday dinners starting at the children’s table mistaking whipped turnips for mashed potatoes & having to eat them all once they hit my plate smiling past my throat closing on that hated taste I like … Continue reading →

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Posted on November 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on createdavidt:
Those lips aren’t thin They are bursting with words Beestung with sweet nectar Your lipbalm is royal jelly Those lips spit verses As frequently as sailors fling curses Those lips aren’t thin They taste the earth…

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Frost paintings (thanksgiving acrostic)

Posted on November 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Thin-drawn frost paintings Hug my window this morning Angling condensation into Nautilus patterns, or ferns. Knowing physics is what Shapes patterns on this Glass, and how crystal forms independent of vision Innocent of the beauty it creates is no less … Continue reading →

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thanksgiving, 2012

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

i would rather embody grace than say it, hands folded neatly over these plates, shining my grandmother’s pattern & i remember her hands stroking napkins to smoothness on this table, teaching me the placement of plates & which forks to … Continue reading →

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unvarnished

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if i parse myself in pieces they never add up to pretty still, this skin that burns and never tans is the same that sings under your hands & my lips’ bare thinness parts to let tongues twine in a … Continue reading →

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