Tag Archives: gods

Her god is sunflower yellow; mine laughs

Posted on August 8, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

for the yellow lady and KB Her god is sunflower yellow, the color space in the spectrum a deity might surf—a god of dandelions and honey, darkening to the amber of petals when they fade. He says, with cynicism, if … Continue reading →

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isis

Posted on August 7, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

There were 42 pieces of him I found; a jigsaw of flesh to solve piece into piece, or a crazyquilt trimmed and stitched exactly into his pattern. It takes audacity to reassemble a god from what’s dead, and the assurance … Continue reading →

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Her god is sunflower yellow; mine laughs

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

for the yellow lady and KB Her god is sunflower yellow, the color space in the spectrum a deity might surf—a god of dandelions and honey, darkening to the amber of petals when they fade. He says, with cynicism, if … Continue reading →

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fall comes to the valley in whispers

Posted on September 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

cornfields left dry and standing in late september whisper urgency the harvest gods are impatient for everything to be gathered in, dried, or ground to flour, so they can dance with light on water before it freezes, or sleep in leaf-piles. yes, early fall … Continue reading →

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today’s god

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

today’s god brings heat driving, drying, sucking movement from air and burying it deep in hungry earth, this glacier gravel soil that springs up mountains under my teetering feet and yours, you visionary that gestures in tongues no words, you … Continue reading →

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