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Poetry 2012

there are leopards in our bones

Posted on September 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

what is human builds. there are leopards in our bones, hyenas in our throats, growling & now laughing tornado spirits spin small midnight circles in ripening cow corn behind my house. i want to choose symbols for us past 30-minute television channel … Continue reading →

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Posted on September 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on eulonia country:
i run to make the fire sign to be chased by a hundred years of dissolving bone beads in a government glass case on display somewhere in Alabama. i go to find the First-Coyote-Made-From-Water inside…

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September heights–creation

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

a bang or a shout shaped everything we are now– was it god or chance?

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once the dust clears (for RGH)

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the house you built still stands, shaken but unbroken the rooms you nested within then drifted apart inside wait here, the other side of pretending for you to shed, finally the character you learned so well in gesture & inflection practiced until … Continue reading →

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in case you have forgotten our smallness remember this scale

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

in case you have forgotten our smallness remember this scale if the sun were as big as a football the earth would be a peppercorn mercury the head of a pin & venus just another peppercorn with our turning blue … Continue reading →

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Posted on September 13, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

she says she loves him, still with her heart broken because that space in her chest shattered & open has room for so much more than pain

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sonnet #2

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the unfolding sweetness your kisses bring deeply hidden, past where lips together join and learn a language of sighs, feather soft promises of pleasure murmured, rising in heartbeats faster than the frantic wings of a hummingbird rushing to nectar before … Continue reading →

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