Tag Archives: love

what’s for dinner

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

you would think a poet & a musician would have more to say to each other at the end of the day than this: I am making lentils & rice for dinner, unless you had something else planned? Yes, at … Continue reading →

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05/06/2012

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

may is the month for remembering my sister’s birth my mother’s death separated by years, only 4 days apart on the calendar the flowers I place carefully over their graves spice the air like cinnamon coloring the palate remembered love … Continue reading →

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my dead

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I call them my dead, not that they don’t still belong to themselves or to the universe now, but they are mine because when they lived we walked together & now I carry memories from each of them like small … Continue reading →

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motherhood

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

he said you are my rib & I believed him flesh knit to bone so tightly we were one person but when she showed up, tiny spark & flutter on the ultrasound the choice was easy for me: if I … Continue reading →

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Thom #1

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

it is easy to love you while you sleep, arms wide in careless abandon small smile curving your lower lip so much easier than when you wake, yesterday’s anger still framing your eyes do not forget it is our differences … Continue reading →

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