Tag Archives: poetry

before words i shaped worlds

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

before words i shaped worlds behind my eyelids framing stories before i knew there were tellers there was an epic of ants and whispered songs of hummingbirds to butterflies that needed translating along with the cackling slapstick of chickens bickering in their … Continue reading →

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in case the world goes pop (for a new friend)

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

ask me again what i think of you in a year i said forgetting the mayan calendar and its end in two months or thereabouts in the instance that the world explodes like a cherry bomb while the ash and dust … Continue reading →

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Song of a Child Bride – a duet

Posted on October 6, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

by Susan L. Daniels and Noel A. Ihebuzor I am a girl. Eleven years ago I came too early for you, but I was yours as nothing else was, and I grew under love brighter than the sun. I am … Continue reading →

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hemispheres

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

water doesn’t know division into ocean names the equator, tropics & meridian are just red lines we draw on that spinning blueness with islands/continents all one thing until we named it & us otherwise but it’s still just that: home

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going carrie nation

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

some days i want to be so sure of rightness, carried strong by riptide conscience & not drowning hatchet swinging must be freeing: a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus turning tables at the temple calling wrong things wrong … Continue reading →

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bride price

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

when she was 7 my daughter started second grade her bedroom purple & pink with Barbies & plush. she kept a dollhouse & not very well how is a girl as young as 7 a wife, except to play house with … Continue reading →

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We Two Fly (a duet)

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

by Noel A. Ihebuzor and Susan L. Daniels i have flown too pushing off with one foot and coasting thermals with hawks but after i am above trees, dispersing clouds skipping over jet trails– never in dreams have i found a way … Continue reading →

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