Tag Archives: death

if death is truly the road to awe

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if beauty is in the breaking down & the taking up of matter, growth/decay intimately twined into this weave, our fabric unraveled & reknit if death is the beginning journey both becoming & unbecoming, let something live sing & thread through these bones … Continue reading →

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haiku heights: birth

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

equinox, mabon the wheel balances & turns from birth to fading there is evenness between light and dark today, the birth of autumn

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stay

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

stay, he said when I asked what he wanted stay, when I could do nothing but provide the most human things; touch, eyes, and a voice next to his bed we spoke of irony, how the disease he studied claimed him … Continue reading →

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Pantoum (before)

Posted on August 2, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I do not remember innocence. I was never in any first garden, This life sprung from dust and breath blended Before I knew death was hungry. Our bonding was never ideal. I was never in any first garden, Tasting temptation and finding … Continue reading →

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my dead

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I call them my dead, not that they don’t still belong to themselves or to the universe now, but they are mine because when they lived we walked together & now I carry memories from each of them like small … Continue reading →

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my sister’s ghost

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Twice I saw her in dreams; the first time I carried her weightless in a basket on my back. No one saw her but me, & she wrapped her arms around my neck & murmured in my ear how to … Continue reading →

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