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perspectives

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

We call this blue jewel astronauts kiss on returning home, which means many things and is where death happens. Her tectonic rage resonates through space as she becomes bell, ringing and indifferent; tsunamis and fallen cities simply notes in her sounding, but us,  we remember. We light candles. … Continue reading →

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apocalypse poem #4 (it’s temporary)

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

asteroids, floods, & eruptions might sweep this face clean of what crawls or walks on it occasionally, a few seconds in hours of geologic time erasing almost everything but she’s not telling the how of it or the when except … Continue reading →

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new world magic

Posted on November 30, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

new world magic is different. the Cherokee say when the earth was mud risen from water, grandfather buzzard sank valleys & lifted mountains with his careless wings & they told of a world under this one whose people knew summers in our … Continue reading →

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some thoughts on early winter

Posted on November 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there are things winter owns besides this  axial tilt shortening days & steaming breath it is icicle teeth grazing the edge of the roof hungry for the heat inside & how the moon, no longer warm readies her blades to sketch … Continue reading →

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have you heard the sound of the sun

Posted on November 26, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the sun spins compositions the way stars shout across vacuum– electromagnetic spectra that resonate under matter we vibrate to like struck tuning forks but it is our substance the metal in our bones quiet bells sounding– the earth sighs, too & i … Continue reading →

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scales in the key of stone

Posted on November 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

skimming the skin of things always in dragonfly lightness just brushing the real with these wings do you know what carries us, flowing above the elemental? there are layers over layers & they are named i have seen the veins … Continue reading →

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mirror the equinox

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

equinox– the wheel balances and turns, from birth to fading; there is evenness between light and dark today, birth of autumn autumn of birth, today dark and light between; evenness is there fading to birth from turns and balances, wheel the equinox … Continue reading →

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