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Poetry 2012

a dangerous passivity

Posted on December 17, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

he wants to talk morality and choice as if they are pieces in some celestial chess game, with us the pawns prepainted shades that place us into set squares at the start predestined or already damned or sails, empty and … Continue reading →

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killing god

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

God is easy when we use Him to explain what’s wrong here we love putting words in His mouth to suit our politics and explain prejudice but if He  spoke, just spoke to us about how we are the problem … Continue reading →

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there is no why, only is

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there are no easy answers but who is asking– when no one is blamed but the shooter we can arm or disarm we can reify & never rectify the flaw in the machine it’s not the absence of God in our schools– … Continue reading →

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Never taken (economics of loss)

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

lives can be stolen, sure & early but no one loved is ever taken from us, really when flesh is gone we carry them, daily in our pockets & they are never spent memory is the only currency I value– … Continue reading →

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thread

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

nothing is sacred anymore except the most feelings & those are caught between the teeth of the beasts we feed tears & dragged, unspooling what is our fine in threads a spiderwebbed trail over & through every(one)thing

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details (making dinner)

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I am thinking of Venus transits in passing, something deleted from junk e-mail unread this morning, but somehow relevant as I break rosemary into sage to tease the nose in green-scented olive oil.  My pestle is innocent of  stars & their charting & … Continue reading →

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God weeps

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

flags are half-staff at the capitol & everywhere red stripes tell blood; today not of revolutionaries but children, ours, because they are all our children, just learning letters & numbers, sight words, how to run & today how to die all we had to learn was how to … Continue reading →

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