Tag Archives: loss

God weeps

Posted on December 15, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

flags are half-staff at the capitol & everywhere red stripes tell blood; today not of revolutionaries but children, ours, because they are all our children, just learning letters & numbers, sight words, how to run & today how to die all we had to learn was how to … Continue reading →

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HH prompt: Wish

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

empty of wishes at the end of a red day but full of prayers

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body bags

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

18 of them, small for bodies under 4 feet lined up with 6 full-size bags how we tidy up loss so neatly & lifted easy but only the flesh is light not the arms that lift it you can’t cart … Continue reading →

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phantoms

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

i can’t listen to Andrew Lloyd Weber without remembering her passion for that dark music she played over & over on vinyl until like those ripples on the soundtrack the needle smoothed over, a stone skipped across dark water in … Continue reading →

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11 types of pain

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there are 11 types of pain classified by tissue, type & frequency but I find nowhere written 1 that equals the knife twist of your absence

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losing by degrees (what we don’t give up)

Posted on October 30, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there are degrees of loss, of forgetting & misplacing that span a hunt for car keys to that final tearing away of death we need different words for separations because some carry more weight, like that yielding we call sacrifice & own only in the … Continue reading →

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the shortest eulogy in the world starts and ends here

Posted on October 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

i want to sing your life or smile it but loss carries me past words

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