Tag Archives: earth

to live under a rock is to disconnect from made things & live knowing

Posted on October 2, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

to live under a rock is to disconnect from made things & live knowing we are married forever to stone that holds us.  yes, to stone & mud that parent us & mark our passing in prints– trace them, if you can … Continue reading →

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the physical properties of desire

Posted on August 17, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

  the sigh that drives everything desire is simply desire & here we reach for each other, welcoming our bridge of words and silence mirroring the draw between atoms echoing the loneliness of God for Adam the want of earth to hold … Continue reading →

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perspective (underfoot)

Posted on August 4, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I am growing things my mud feet my root fingers my sunflower stem spine are common but not as fragile as you think I am quiet but not voiceless beneath your feet under your machines silent does not mean weak … Continue reading →

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feeling the earth

Posted on July 24, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

we learn of lithosphere and crust, continental plates alive and slipping still in echoes of creation we name ages and periods of rock count layers like rings in a tree but stone and slower growing than plant exuberance; she has time … Continue reading →

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the new gods still have clay feet

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

the world is getting terrifyingly small he said, the immediacy of data exchanges & satellited conversations compress it perhaps perhaps, we lessen the planet somehow to our scale when we do not measure distances in miles or kilometers but rather … Continue reading →

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barefoot

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

my feet are made flat so they hug more of the earth rolling beneath them

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birthdays/astrology

Posted on June 26, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

language here is archaic and spiced with alchemy:  12 signs flowing through those 4 elements, ruled by planets dancing in houses, the essential locations of the moon, the sun, the degree of rotation of the earth in relationship to those other … Continue reading →

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