POEM A DAY – June 24 – VANESSA SHIELDS

Today I Wear A Neon Yellow Shirt

…because I like the brilliance it emits because it’s inspiration for my thoughts because when I washed my hands in the Burger King bathroom the soap smelled like the daycare I attended when I was two and three and I closed my eyes an inhaled deeply nostalgia tugging the back of my throat like a lost voice and there was gold behind my eyelids from my neon yellow shirt that I was looking at before I started washing my hands…because sometimes the clothes I wear are guides for memories…before daycare…when I was a star’s yellow shirt…