Category Archives: faith

James was right about a lot of things

Posted on March 31, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

James was right about a lot of things and if he heard the words your lips made he would wonder if you would try ever to kiss me with that mouth or if I could taste past the bitterness rolled … Continue reading →

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canon (the important thing)

Posted on September 26, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there is a gospel of mary on a fifth-century papyrus that is not canon & an infancy gospel of thomas where the child Jesus rolled 12 sparrows from clay & spit. they flew away, singing.  not everything old is true, & … Continue reading →

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love in active language

Posted on August 30, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

a cathedral built of live stone climbs skyward this is how I pray in breath consciously and always spires stretching to joy stained-glassed sun stamping color in light reliefs on the floor on my hands across knees this voice in … Continue reading →

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this poem has no name

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

we do not name ourselves borrowing first our fathers’ and then our husbands’ names adding them behind the first name like a string of  shiny beads telling the world who we belong to because we must belong to someone because … Continue reading →

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complex in simplicity

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

complex in simplicity this flesh knows its workings & I move thankfully unaware of it, unknowing the small daily living and dying off of what makes me those cellular selves echoing the deep fingerprint of the hands that shaped not … Continue reading →

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Knocking Heads With the Mennonites

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

My “plain people” poem brought back a favorite family story I have not heard since I was 10 years old. My grandparents were out driving one Sunday morning somewhere in Canada, near Owen Sound, Ontario.  It was early enough for … Continue reading →

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faith, embodied

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I should breathe worship like old-order Amish every conscious second every action a prayer of movement and letting be

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