Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

priestess of base matter

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this ritual propitiation speaks to how not everything is God or a god, but those fingerprints of His in celestial swirled particles breathe here & resonate my mother when she found an anthill theoretical or found evidence of touch of … Continue reading →

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a series of small things

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

one ant is like small trouble brushed off & walked away from but do it quickly because trouble can swarm into rivers, with toothed currents hungry, and swallowing flesh alive in a series of small bites

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more on the drought

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

  If the rain comes and does not dry in the thirsty air before it meets earth like fingers teasing a near caress I will meet it worshiping the bringer my skin drinking what touches me I dream of water … Continue reading →

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what was never said (for RND)

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the closest we came to saying anything was the day I shopped on the street for necklaces you saw me & pulled over to ask if I wanted coffee all you wanted was water because you never drank anything hot, just … Continue reading →

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rooms

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

so much we don’t know squared inside rooms we almost live in bland walls comforting with sameness the eye has memorized only daylight changes shifts to fluorescent bulbs driving shadows to corners where they hide like dust swept into cracks ghosts waiting … Continue reading →

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thirst

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

circled by night breezes stirring thick heated chants of katydids and crickets telling and retelling cycles in grasshopper rasps of summer already shortening but my skin does not believe in winter yet when heat lightning is a tease that does not … Continue reading →

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for your ears

Posted on July 18, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I will whisper-sing rest like rain silvering leaves love we dream awake

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