Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

Midnight of the Spaghetti Western

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

The rolls the piano plays spin a dialogue scripted between greed and pathos, existential angst scaled over horse lather and cattle wearing new brands.  The real west was rougher and more honest than this.  Still, there is room for me … Continue reading →

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Frankie’s Poem

Posted on August 10, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Die with it in you, he said, and so I did, quiet, the way women should. That ballad they say I sang was never mine.  If they would not let me speak of why I grasped that axe, how could … Continue reading →

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Her god is sunflower yellow; mine laughs

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

for the yellow lady and KB Her god is sunflower yellow, the color space in the spectrum a deity might surf—a god of dandelions and honey, darkening to the amber of petals when they fade. He says, with cynicism, if … Continue reading →

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like a toothache, like herpes

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

If I say I loved you, let me shade it with the metonym a drunk tastes threaded through gin, the orgasm a crackhead lit in his brain once and tries to get back every fucking time he smokes and misses. … Continue reading →

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Number 3 – RAPE: Rise Against Punishable Eccentricity

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on 50 Shades of Gray Hair:
The third and final post in the RAPE:  Rise Against Punishable Eccentricity challenge to join the movement to raise our voices in the fight again Rape and Sexual Assault, as well as lift…

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isis

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

There were 42 pieces of him I found; a jigsaw of flesh to solve piece into piece, or a crazyquilt trimmed and stitched exactly into his pattern. It takes audacity to reassemble a god from what’s dead, and the assurance … Continue reading →

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Number 2 – RAPE: Rise Against Punishable Eccentricity

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on 50 Shades of Gray Hair:
The second in this 3 part series by Susan Daniels and myself for RAPE: Rise Against Punishable Eccentricity. If you missed the first one – Rape Hurts – I hope you view it…

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