Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

in my pocket (singles)

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

so much of what’s wrong is folded in my pocket immediate, temporal meat for the one who swallows the many and stays hungry we used to feed him children that is not what was meant by the words in the … Continue reading →

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Damascus (with Nicholas Gagnier)

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

On world maps, this crescent just attacked was formerly a home; those bones were a house and for the people within, this road was more than a convoy route. Collateral damage is not measured in numbers here; it is counted … Continue reading →

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Parrot My Foot (Intimate Imitations)- Duet With Boomie Bol

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Parrot my foot and imitate these hands shivering timbers from deep down inside This talk of love your empty 4 letter word speaking to my foot my hand responds as needed My mouth mirrors yours in speech or kissing but … Continue reading →

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Christmas, 1994

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Florida didn’t seem like Christmas to me, snowless and palmed, the only white the sugared sand beaches of the Gulf where I chose shells to fill wire baskets for my mother and sister I strung shells with peacock feathers, crafting dreamcatchers … Continue reading →

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Nineveh

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

what I have to say is old standing in a new place risen over temples to broken gods we don’t know but what is stone waits under sand blown through it for four thousand years the names whispered in the … Continue reading →

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12/22/2012

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

days are never important in advance– but this one, the day after the apocalypse that didn’t carries more weight than the snow I woke to the world is still here and so are most of us but not all that woke … Continue reading →

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Haiku Heights Prompt: Snow

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

pieces of sky fall sifted confectioner sweet– we stick out our tongues

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