Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

the price of a voice (for Malala)

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

when a child speaks what makes her words so dangerous you would gag her with lead? what code of honor that is spoken or written exists for women or their children in this place where girls are burned by acid … Continue reading →

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the math of cats

Posted on October 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

cats have a geometry difficult to capture in lines that soften & go fluid tapering to sharp angles perhaps it is best to express motion in points on a graph as they calculate the precise distance from sill to piano … Continue reading →

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positivity (shaking from coffee)

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this beat in my bones is just vibrato strummed to syncopate with rattlesnake precision the pulse under my voice nothing like strength, just neurotransmitted lightning struck synapse to synapse in flashes behind eyes some call brilliance but really random hits streamed … Continue reading →

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don’t get carried away by this

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

  stability is a coin toss away he said, but magical thinking went the way of daisy heads for me when i stripped feelings petal by petal hoping he did love me– much easier to ask the man instead of a daisy … Continue reading →

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to the gods of spam

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this is no canned mystery meat– who ever saw a field dotted with grazing spam or fed a flock of spam or saw spam fly south for the winter– so anything cut from a mythical animal is a gift from … Continue reading →

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toccata and fugue

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

toccata: a composition styled as improvisation to show the speed and style of fingers; the stroke and flutter of hands across octaves. i want to flex language in toccata, words instead of chords interlaced to dizzy and dazzle air; images brushed … Continue reading →

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ramen (student budget)

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

that flat seasoning packet with artificial chicken stirred into ripple-pressed perfect noodle squares– the cardboard & boiling water i lived on in college because it was cheap & i could cook it in under 10 minutes i can’t understand why my children … Continue reading →

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