Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

Monday Aubade

Posted on April 6, 2015 by Susan L Daniels

I’ve not watched sunrise with you, or even seen those first pale fingers twist in your hair alongside the silver because before dawn our house is a litany of silenced alarms and snooze buttons burned toast and looking towards the east not … Continue reading →

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Easter

Posted on April 5, 2015 by Susan L Daniels

It mostly snows in Buffalo Easter Sunday My mother blamed it on resurrection in an uncertain season or the inconsistency of things passing over.

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Love Poem

Posted on April 4, 2015 by Susan L Daniels

For Eulonia If I were a ladybug I would marry you in your constant opening to air; my 12 footprints tracking pollen across our moss bed, these antenna 2 quills shaped to scribe your sweet with nectar ink. I would across kingdoms shout a … Continue reading →

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dysfunction

Posted on April 3, 2015 by Susan L Daniels

you break everything except me the vacuum’s cracked housing substitutes for bones the dishwasher doesn’t drain its secrets so stink we don’t speak of bleeds across the floor the microwave clock has a short so time in this house breaks, stacatto and needs fixing *** … Continue reading →

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The first warm day

Posted on April 2, 2015 by Susan L Daniels

before crocuses there is softening into thaw or not quite (almost) spring

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His father speaks to him in feathers

Posted on October 24, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

He says his father speaks in feathers; a calligraphy all quill and no ink, a scripted spiral through air and into hands held open. I am more basic. My father does not haunt, but waits at the edge of sleep, where dreamed … Continue reading →

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There is no Prince

Posted on June 28, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

You are no prince riding to my rescue. The castle is long breached, and I still sleep, covered over by nettles, or roses– it does not matter which, as long as there is that sting to thread blood in cursive across skin, a language of … Continue reading →

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