Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

Lackawanna, 2012. The brown fields.

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

no gentrification here between the steel whale falls of factories that no longer blow stink into sky their carcasses pierced through by new trees threaded through tracks like rib bones the wind turbines pinwheel in sync spinning power from lake wind … Continue reading →

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uncategorized

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

with what designs will you mark me like mehndi on my palms but not sun or stars henna-painted there although I am some of these instead a question mark a permanent one because I am what I was made to … Continue reading →

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Elizabeth (15 minutes)

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

held in mother arms too soon rocked by a body she should be joined to still by that rope of blood now cut pushed from weightless swimming into light before eyes are ready for it to air before lungs can … Continue reading →

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raspberries

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

we must be careful fruit so easily broken & bruised is guarded jealously circled by live barbwire claws that scratch deep self-protection how we learn from brambles to defend our own sweetness

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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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white noise

Posted on July 16, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

jazz beats with razor edge icicle-tooth sound should not be white noise erasing cartoon & movie soundtracks played too loud in the background while I write because that jazz threads its way easy and teasing into my words & I … Continue reading →

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tile flower

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels
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