Category Archives: New Free Verse

Poetry 2012

veterans park, 1984

Posted on September 29, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

1984 was the year we wore yellow eyeshadow & found punk, hummed along to disgust muttered tuneless by skeletal men we called artists who exhaled heroin bitterness instead of lyrics & rasped desperation that set our teeth on edge it was … Continue reading →

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life in 40-dollar increments

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

i never saw life as strung cigarette to cigarette & maybe that’s why those small escapes are legal but deadly.  you smell money in a room the way a shark tastes bait blood in water, small eyes hunting the source you would kill for … Continue reading →

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braid battlefield

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

no cornrows with beads for her & no threaded hair but the long coiled twists those twists are rasta fingercombed to sleek ripples– war over, we twist

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mommy genes

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

these are not the skinny jeans folded on top of the closet shelf i think i am somehow going to wear again & they’re not the mom jeans roomy enough at the hips no. these are the genes that supposedly … Continue reading →

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To Have Without Holding

Posted on September 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

by Marge Piercy Learning to love differently is hard, love with the hands wide open, love with the doors banging on their hinges, the cupboard unlocked, the wind roaring and whimpering in the rooms rustling the sheets and snapping the … Continue reading →

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haiku heights: waltz

Posted on September 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this dance of planets is more reel than waltz, tumbling orbits spun dizzy

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Posted on September 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

…and the duets have spread to another continent…Yay Bruce & Sue!

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