Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

(play)grounding

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

play(ground) so sanitary now gravel not grass under small feet; harder walking but softer falls & no wearing grass to dust under swings where nothing grows children chase each other in tribes, formed & warring in minutes in their game of … Continue reading →

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tone of voice

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

we are instruments and our voices are well-tuned; sometimes we breathe language lightly & those scales feather skin like foreplay those tones you like, stroking spine & weaving through hair like elegant fingers but our words, too, carry little weight … Continue reading →

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zoo nation (do not feed the animals)

Posted on August 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

***LANGUAGE WARNING*** no bad grammar, but I cuss a little in this one… politics regresses us. no grooming can kill all the parasites sucking us to anemia, but still we pick & stroke the minutiae that will bleed us empty … Continue reading →

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This is a MUST read for women–and the men who love them

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/08/problem-men-explaining-things-rebecca-solnit

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the shift

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

September brings trees aging to claret reds & white-wine yellows; air tasting of grapes & new apples, blending with visible breath, premonition of harder freezing on the way something September owns heady and baroque reminds me of Vivaldi, not the fall movement … Continue reading →

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days like these

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

days like these I want an exit sign right there on the ceiling where I can if I really want to jump out of this skin & leave the planet temporarily to the insane (both criminal & not) but that … Continue reading →

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baby teeth

Posted on August 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I saw a picture of her, laughing mouth full of baby teeth & another where she bends flower stems low enough to reach her nose she was five ready to start school in 2 weeks until they found her yesterday morning … Continue reading →

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