Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

the night we met (Jaman)

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

his hands hovered & covered 2 octaves each over that sweep of keys for those long fingers those flats and sharps rippled & tripled in ostinato block cord voicing striding & skipping spells on that baby grand hands making that instrument … Continue reading →

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prey

Posted on June 5, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this valley distorts sound so you can’t tell from which direction death is coming thin hunting calls of coyotes echo everywhere, slip inside open windows into my ears body poised for flight until I remember I am safe beneath blankets … Continue reading →

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breathe

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I want to take you into me necessary as air, and as sweet so close our breathing matches my inhalation/your exhalation blended breath

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for you

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Dreaming I will wake walking with you & waking I will carry your name a secret kept under my tongue that begs to be shouted

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For Zoe

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if sometimes you are loud, my daughter it is because those three continents you spring from shout together in one voice, uniquely yours, braided into one note, a history, sometimes bitter but purified, distilled & blended into your beauty, & … Continue reading →

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Great Horned Owl

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Hunger hunts tonight winged silhouette under stars silent midnight glide

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busting up cliches

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if it takes 2 to tango what happens when 1 detaches drifts from dancer to audience watches her partner ply those set patterns of basic outside partner forward 1-2-3 then slide leading himself that tango no longer suggestive but set … Continue reading →

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