Tag Archives: poetry

No borrowing jackets, please

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

At the end of a workday where I have squeezed plump, juicy, unruly words into shoes two sizes too small, and made those shoes so shiny, combed out tangled subject-verb agreements and trimmed those dangling participles, I want my poetry … Continue reading →

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cycles

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

All animal life moves from hatch or birth to breed; then on to its own hatch or birth, then dying to repeat again, infinitely and intimately chained in love or indifference to the earth whose body feeds us, and who will … Continue reading →

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the most basic math

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

I only enjoy math gnawed down to its bones when it moves into sets of apple, apple, apple tossed upside down & bruised by paradox where, suddenly mathematics becomes poetry, throws logic in the air & concludes: this formula is … Continue reading →

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appeal

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

there are times I want to flaunt femaleness, slide sex over my head like a red dress & wear it all day smiling, that strut in high heels tapping codes to ears biologically tuned to their meaning it’s not exactly … Continue reading →

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renaissance

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

because a door has unlocked behind my eyes & begins to open I see with new brightness I am whole again & my words once trapped beneath a tongue that could no longer shape them paralyzed with grief are again … Continue reading →

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another lesson

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

Kurt Vonnegut: “Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you’ve been to college.” the first rule if we are making rules which … Continue reading →

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intuition

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if you knew I would say yes would you ask me & why do I think I know the answer & the question before either are spoken?

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