CONTENT WARNING! one poem includes 'poop' talk, the other is a tad erotic. (You're welcome.) August 26 TMI we’re standing in a forestthree women: two youngone me, aged in the middle I have to go to the bathroom.nature’s toilet surrounds me.earlier someone said: TMI means tell me immediatelyI laughed from my underbelly.well in that case…… Continue reading POEM A DAY – August 26 & 27
Author: Vanessa Shields
Writer. Mother. Lover.
POEM A DAY – August 25
The Call Sheet Says I’m ‘Head Wrangler’ & it’s more true than any descriptionfor poet I’ve heard in years, especiallywhen this morning I was stationedunder the most whimsical, magicalwillow tree & she wooed me to hertendrils & made me touch one &I literally giggled & my head wrangledall these words into a poem Our whimsical,… Continue reading POEM A DAY – August 25
POEM A DAY – August 24
donation as I bathed in treeswatched my friendsmy family work hardlooked at the greyclouds bringing thesky ceiling to whereI could reach up& touch it I did that I touched it& I felt old stormstingling out of myfingertips donatingmy sorrows to thespace betweenthe treetops & thesoaring hawk
VANESSA SHIELDS 