Tag Archives: fun

Last minute

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

Tonight I take the last bag of candy from the pharmacy shelf colored red and pink and wrapped separately so my son can sign his name with his novice four letters 24 times because that’s me, always on the cusp … Continue reading →

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how to catch what won’t stay still

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

don’t try to define what by nature is mutable, not fixed, quicksilver & led by Mercury these feet slip traps (even your careful ones) easier to run with or a little ahead of me, a game of tag or a race … Continue reading →

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warning label (spoken word)

Posted on December 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this box you try to fit me inside is too narrow for my borders & I will not be folded like a secret under your bed a stained & shameful thing with all the magazines & my shape is too … Continue reading →

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i hate cliches like wearing my heart on my sleeve, as if somehow that much control would be possible

Posted on September 24, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

a heart lives inside my tongue, in my fingertips, pulses through my pen & i never know what secret it will speak just for the sake of singing it & there i am, left cleaning all that unrepentant truth-telling that … Continue reading →

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alive upside down

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

let’s live a day breaking Newton’s law shift roof to floor in child-like play & we can fall out of bed to the ceiling & maybe swim in sky the way fish do water & it will not matter how deep we dive until … Continue reading →

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a memory

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

that boy, who should stay 17 the one I never dated but first learned to slow-dance with at a Christmas party to a song I have forgotten, but still remember how, even in height with my shoes kicked off his … Continue reading →

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complements

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

kissing you would be how mirror lips touch like ( and ) parentheses taste murmuring together one shared sweetness

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