Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

Wild Leaves

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

One of my favorite Patti Smith tunes.

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living now open as I do

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

living now open as I do unfurled and belling parachute or compound sunflower wide and waiting to ripen hard to mistake flaming silk or framing petals billowing or nodding with wind for something other than readiness rooted or sailing, I will … Continue reading →

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looking for god in particles (theology of physics)

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

did they find it/him/her the organizing energy behind the universe that particle bringing matter form and spirit weight no, they discover the fingerprint of something greater inside everything but that organizing energy is too clever to be captured by our crude tools … Continue reading →

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the new lot’s wife

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if I look back once let it not be salt that dissolves that is all that is left of me standing here but a stronger substance, let me become diamond hardness a core that scratches iron but prismatic, sparkling, and … Continue reading →

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sex in the third person

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if I and you shifted to she and he when we should be just us lost in the heat of this we fusing there would be no true union just she filtering feeling through a camera lens a voyeur assessing performance … Continue reading →

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Posted on July 1, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Yes, yes–a thousand times yes! Read this people… And eat better….

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faces on a wall (inspired by Chuck Tingley’s freestyle painting video)

Posted on July 1, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

graffiti eyes and mouths borrow form from the wall and, lacking something like enough hunger, they become bases for new faces sprayed over and rising from each other generations of cheekbones and jawlines rising for a moment then overlapped smiling (or is … Continue reading →

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