Moving
“It is dawn and your poems
have moved me to poems.”
pg 261, from ‘Variations’, The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane
the worry in my guts detangles
as I ask you to trust me
to trust yourself
to embrace the painful
process of conversations
about change
we’re in this together
like night & day
like reading poems
& writing poems like
the profound occurrence
of emotions moving
VANESSA SHIELDS, writer 