Tag Archives: poetry

conjoined

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

we are not twins cut from the same womb sharing a heart so, yes we can live apart without surgical separation we can both walk away from this tangled mess and no one need die from it

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water: three movements (a meditation)

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

become like water clear, still, a moving mirror rippling soft and shallow become like water fall downhill in long steep steps of yielding water-ness become a wave and roar, angry force for change tear away all but the essential become … Continue reading →

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habit breaking (cycles)

Posted on June 11, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

1.  I crave so baldly yes, crave that death-giving killer of feeling cigarette that until yesterday was what saved everyone from random floating bitchiness that poisoned air as much as second-hand smoke 2.  It is not so difficult not so long … Continue reading →

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a letter from my father

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

this one, from Asia, 1963 he writes to her locations blackened out by censors but they left enough of his yearning to lie next to her his hand covering her newly-swollen belly feeling for that first small kick no one … Continue reading →

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relational mechanics

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

finally, past pretending I force my eyes from the fixed point on the wall I was memorizing instead of listening and look at you; my eyes starting at the point I suppose your heart leaps beneath skin and sternum though … Continue reading →

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measurements and calculations

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

so enmeshed in numbers height, weight, the measurable distance between eyebrows the arc of a nose shades of eyes, hair, and skin all dictated by the way melanin scatters to paint us in rainbows shape and size of eyes flare … Continue reading →

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Fizzy Feelings and Fuzzy Physics: Motion II

Posted on June 10, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

By Susan L. Daniels and Noel A. Ihebuzor All life is motion compelled to move; you and I, we must move too even in apparent stillness our atoms vibrate past vision and all senses, rearranging with the simple harmonic motion of … Continue reading →

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