breathe

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I want to take you into me
necessary as air, and as sweet
so close our breathing matches
my inhalation/your exhalation
blended breath

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for you

Posted on June 4, 2012 by Susan L Daniels
Dreaming
I will wake walking with you
& waking

I will carry your name
a secret
kept under my tongue

that begs
to be shouted

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For Zoe

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if sometimes
you are loud, my daughter
it is because

those three continents
you spring from
shout together in one voice,
uniquely yours,
braided into one note,

a history, sometimes bitter
but purified, distilled
& blended into your beauty,

& by others like you
who shape their own names

who rise out of their parents
singing
of new colors, new forms
new thinking

& who will one day
know what it is

to fly
***not sure this is done yet–might be a fragment of something larger, or not

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Great Horned Owl

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Hunger hunts tonight
winged silhouette under stars
silent midnight glide

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busting up cliches

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if it takes 2 to tango
what happens when 1
detaches

drifts from dancer
to audience

watches
her partner

ply
those set patterns

of basic outside partner
forward 1-2-3 then slide

leading himself

that tango
no longer suggestive

but set
& singular

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haiku: process

Posted on June 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

formed before I write
the poem in all things finds me
breathless and waiting

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our chemistry

Posted on June 2, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this mad science
passion, heated
& distilled
captured by drips
into a flask

left to age
& softened
by dust

settling
on the surface

darkened
by time
its contents

when opened
should sublimate

to something pure
& uncatchable

love (?)

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