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?

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on Rule of Stupid:
Part three of my essential Blog tips is here – whoo hoo. yay. great. I have been told by the Society for the Protection of the Over-Sensitive that I cannot post this without including…

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countdown

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

tomorrow we are 30 days from apocalypse again, calculated by the ancient wise they say, but really just the end of the Mayan long count before another cycle of numbering births in a  stretch keeping time the way only they … Continue reading →

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Words: Beyond and before words

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

by Noel Ihebuzor and Susan Daniels   before Babel maybe there was a word for this me you raise not from anything dead but sleeping & deep this me that answers & opens throating every word ever spoken in any … Continue reading →

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another love poem without the word in it

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

before babel maybe there was a word for this me you raise not from anything dead but sleeping & deep this me that answers & opens throating every word ever spoken in any language

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gaza

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

children. eyes open & flesh silenced to seed ready to plant in dry sand to bloom ashes later i am no prophet & am not consulting one but already i taste that stinging harvest bodies cast like runes spill on the floor … Continue reading →

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ghost story (conversation with trent)

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I don’t think it’s me that haunts you– but maybe some idea of us half-formed threads a lightning heartbeat through your ears & flashes patterns in the corners of your vision almost seen but not there enough to touch I … Continue reading →

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ghost story

Posted on November 18, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I don’t think it’s me that haunts you– but maybe some idea of us half-formed threads a lightning heartbeat through your ears & flashes patterns in the corners of your vision almost seen but not there enough to touch

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