Tag Archives: poetry

my personal god (if I have one)

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

my personal god if I have one must be a water spirit templed in blood so this sitting on the stone bank body in water quietly rocked by currents should be prayer but silent & floating raised in splashes to … Continue reading →

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they splash in water

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

they splash in water that foretells autumn in yellow leaves clinging to the bank startling against all that green

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stay

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

stay, he said when I asked what he wanted stay, when I could do nothing but provide the most human things; touch, eyes, and a voice next to his bed we spoke of irony, how the disease he studied claimed him … Continue reading →

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I know the fault lines

Posted on August 20, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

  I know the fault lines where this heart breaks easiest; can chart easily these movements between us as if they are rivers, tides automatic and effortless and impossible to force as it would be to shape dreams into waking forms; … Continue reading →

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Lois (a love poem)

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

it was simply her for him, and he hers when they let themselves scale all their losses piled up & sealed in that stone mountain between them how easy they made it look, that climb to reach each other without … Continue reading →

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Zoe’s spinet

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

  gotten for the cost of hauling it here & feeding four friends who heave it through my sliding glass door is the instrument I said she could learn as it will not decay in that jungle she calls her … Continue reading →

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if he shouts his silence (for R)

Posted on August 19, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if he shouts his silence you will hear it quietly & your eyes will whisper truth making way for words

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