Tag Archives: love

no boys allowed at the slumber party

All the girls that call themselves women buzz like bees circling a bouquet because the topic turns to love, to true love, to the love of your life & how they knew they found it & with whom. I am suddenly 16, … Continue reading

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trust is a learned thing

trust is a learned thing: that something so big can name, can love, can nurture one this small dry tears with a kiss & stitch together a torn heart with a smile it is known by infants as something real, … Continue reading

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why we love

because I and you melt & diffuse into an us of limitless joy

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communication (haiku triptych)

I am uncertain how 3 words breathed in passion more than we spoke them remain strong enough to hold us together still despite differences With what words then, love can I possibly free you? Can they be unsaid?

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Within Calling Without: A Duet

By Noel Ihebuzor and Susan Daniels outside my window, tree frogs and crickets are in full spring shout, like calling to like until they meet and are silent from within, behind my window, I hear their calls, calls from within, … Continue reading

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my sister’s birthday

Your eyes opened 47 years ago, May 9, the perfect Mother’s Day present born a month early. I knew this story before I had words to tell it myself, heard it repeated by our mother in the litany of births … Continue reading

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Eden

We are no first man & first woman in an ideal garden– no, you & I have fallen several times; this last, we fell together with eyes open, aware of the price of love & willing to pay it. We knew … Continue reading

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