Category Archives: octpowrimo prompt

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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when trees grow in us, anything can happen

Posted on October 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

when fir trees branch inside us anything can happen like the feeling when seeing you that this happiness could breathe out 100 butterflies from the center of my chest fluttering winged feeling is something no longer charming but alarmingly possible ***inspired … Continue reading →

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reflections–octpowrimo day 14

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the beauty we know simply this dance of light and matter their rainbow game echoing you to me in diffuse spectral reflection spinning colors you are not to dazzle eyes inside snapped angles in all directions unneeded sun you give back unknowing and … Continue reading →

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prelude to a 30-volume love letter

Posted on October 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

cogito ergo sum carried by blood to the place i hear words not spoken but dropped between the ears before i wake today. Descartes dreamed as eyes open is tricky– i am uncertain these words capture my i-ness the way … Continue reading →

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rewind

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

life moves faster in rewind– the extraneous peeled off the essential things but perhaps it cannot erase how your kisses tasted like wild strawberries, sweet with a little sting

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connectedness

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

we live inside openness & call it selves, world, trees all driven by pulse of blood or water there is no distinction between my bare feet and the earth meeting & melding atoms while i walk with her turns, both … Continue reading →

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Posted on October 2, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

today everything i say will lift up the last word of my sentences defying gravity why not live as if every breath is a question?

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