Tag Archives: poetry

breaking the cage

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

something so live cannot stay still or pace in prescribed patterns indefinitely though it is almost civilized into submission I remember wildness roaring or purring through my blood wisdom that dream-talks and says I am made to hunt to gather … Continue reading →

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bad relationship poem #550

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

once you get past 100 in this series you know it’s far past time to run just look down once in a while because the celestial sense of humor that put us together in the first place & the second … Continue reading →

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we don’t know we are waiting

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

crocuses after the winter softens we don’t know we are waiting until we grow until we open and opening begin to sing sweetness

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in late july midnight

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

in late July midnight this firefly floats inches from my hands & settles on my knee just one blinking her long code of lust or hunger to no answering light the rest of the fireflies long gone in this heat … Continue reading →

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if I say nothing

Posted on July 27, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

if I say nothing keep this heart sewn closed as my mouth if I just speak if I just speak if I just speak my eyes their truth and voice frames no words for you to spin if I say nothing you … Continue reading →

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somewhere

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

somewhere between us i feel seconds stretch more than miles; have fingers I count on, sufficient to span distance in hours, never expecting joy to wing so far, recklessly travelled, across so many borders gladly i would leap days to … Continue reading →

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paint those toenails green

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Susan L Daniels

for Nancy for so long living in the third person so many masks all of them polished & too smooth to match the raw in your eyes take them off & greet your true face in your mirror reflected there … Continue reading →

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