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Poetry 2012

losing by degrees (what we don’t give up)

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there are degrees of loss, of forgetting & misplacing that span a hunt for car keys to that final tearing away of death we need different words for separations because some carry more weight, like that yielding we call sacrifice & own only in the … Continue reading →

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Posted on October 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Originally posted on BroadBlogs:
Some men wonder why they objectify women. So Jayson Gaddis asked men on his Facebook page why they thought they did, and then he wrote about it for The Good Men Project. What is objectification? Jayson…

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the i that sees

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the i that sees & she who feels sum this am who does   ***for Octpowrimo, the prompt is “individuality,” AKA, who am I.

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this is what we do here

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

We had a mayor in Buffalo once who invited the spring of life protests here, but did have something smart to say about weather, if not politics.  During the blizzard of ’85, his advice to the populace was to “Stay inside, grab … Continue reading →

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simplicity

Posted on October 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the feeling you lift up from inside & hold out in your hands perfect in its singleness, unbroken breaks me

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haiku heights: Witch

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

wisdom, rooted here a kind of breathing science blooms into magic

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mirrors

Posted on October 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this hair that fights gravity & hairspray & leaps in response to doors closing is my mother’s hair.  like her, i brush back bangs even at night, as if they won’t riot again on my pillow in minutes.  the war is everything. … Continue reading →

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