Tag Archives: loss

For Stephanie

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

You loved children. You taught vacation bible school in the summers. You worked on the church nativity scenes, but what I want to know what I need to know is that, just once and maybe more than once you opened … Continue reading →

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box canyon

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

You shoutafter the after brings silence but nothing answersexcept this echo

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thread

Posted on March 20, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

nothing is sacred anymore except the most feelings & those are caught between the teeth of beasts we feed tears & dragged, unspooling what is our fine in threads a spiderwebbed trail over & through every(one)thing

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burial in february

Posted on March 10, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

sometimes love is less valentine and more a wait for melt for softening of surface dirt under snow to bury what’s dead sometimes love is measuring how deep to cover the bones, and how wide a space we need to … Continue reading →

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she says burn everything

Posted on November 18, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

for A.H. She’s tired of finding bodies in beds or bathtubs, innocent and empty until memory fills them. Whether she heard the last breath or missed it isn’t the point. She didn’t choose this, the cleanup afterwards, the telephone calls, the … Continue reading →

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Keriah

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

There are mornings whose blues are unspeakable, whose yellows are far too dandelion to dilute under sun. You should have died in November. when loss spins a darker color wheel, those reds rotting to brown. I could paint longing siphoned to … Continue reading →

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When You Leave

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

When you leave there will be empty in my hands instead of the enough filling my mouth I choked on; spitting out sour words instead of the sweet I used to own. When you leave I will have an empty … Continue reading →

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