Tag Archives: objectification

Hanging Weight

Posted on June 4, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

You are hungry for more than meat though your eyes weigh how well I will feed you. When I am bones in your pot will you finally be satisfied?

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Unwomen

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Susan L Daniels

We are pretty plastic, poured and molded To the same shape.  Push us out of cardboard, Precut, with slits for paper dress tabs, a uniform Chain of girls, patterned, pressed, and folded, Always holding hands.  We know our place And stay … Continue reading →

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unvarnished

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if i parse myself in pieces they never add up to pretty still, this skin that burns and never tans is the same that sings under your hands & my lips’ bare thinness parts to let tongues twine in a … Continue reading →

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sex in the third person

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if I and you shifted to she and he when we should be just us lost in the heat of this we fusing there would be no true union just she filtering feeling through a camera lens a voyeur assessing performance … Continue reading →

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