Tag Archives: poetry

silver (anniversary)

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

You have become less you and more an if only. You are bigger than the reason I hate Februarys. You are more than a sound. you are larger, but lighter than the sum of your bones and the shape of … Continue reading →

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Mangoes

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

Unripe fruit hangs heavy on these branches untouchable and bitter as tears in a throat, unswallowed. Still, the sun kisses what can never be sweet and will never seed anything but anger, forests of it.

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There Are No Words

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

We should be boxed and ribboned, candy everyone wants, a sweet we give and pass around, but say nothing and be eaten. There are no words we can use, when yes is whore language and no becomes a knife in … Continue reading →

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vortices

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

I am spinning in the spin of unchained polar air, of the politics of a planet melting at the tips and freezing more in the middle and they call it spin, they call it science made opinion: one out of four … Continue reading →

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Not a Ruth and Naomi Story (a sonnet)

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

I never promised to go where you led With the blind belief of a burdened beast, My feet following any path you made. We are not a fated twining, our threads Spun and woven to oneness, west and east Meeting … Continue reading →

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For Stephanie

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

You loved children. You taught vacation bible school in the summers. You worked on the church nativity scenes, but what I want to know what I need to know is that, just once and maybe more than once you opened … Continue reading →

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The heretic

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Susan L Daniels

“Maiori forsan cum timore sententiam in me fertis quam ego accipiam (Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it)” Can you bind a mind easy as you burn books or flesh, or is what’s real deeper … Continue reading →

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