Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

Kitchen magic

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Susan L Daniels

Today we learn a cure for homesickness we jar like honey and a dessert to sweeten loneliness a bitter zest only palatable after rounded by time I will shape a magic of butter and flour under my hands and whispering simply … Continue reading →

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Don’t get carried away by this–quadrille rewrite

Posted on May 2, 2016 by Susan L Daniels

Give me 59 small stones for my pocket and i will skip prayers across my creek for you that’s my faith– in stones and things harder than stone; pebbles my rosary and prayer is not just inside a voice but in it’s skipping over.

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The desert mother

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Susan L Daniels

I will birth children here absolute as stone innumerable as sand and name each one faith

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Posted on November 19, 2015 by Susan L Daniels

the magicians’ wives are silent testimony bitter sum of bones

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For Jimmie

Posted on September 28, 2015 by Susan L Daniels

When a poet dies the land is not poorer because it holds bones loosely that once sang the resonance of stone and understood what leaves whispered When a poet dies the air echoes her mouth shaping sound that kiss of breath in her voice … Continue reading →

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Don’t tell

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Susan L Daniels

There are words we can’t say. Words that if we speak them are just sounds leading to soap in the mouth or hours in a bedroom no longer safe. There are things we don’t have words for, because no-one speaks them … Continue reading →

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On The Duggars

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on What a Witch:
I don’t want to talk about the parents. I don’t want to talk about how they raised their children in a cult. I don’t want to talk about Josh Duggar. He’s a child molester.…

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