Sunday Haiku orchid petals wiltshy dreams confused by the sunturn pot toward moon TOMORROW IS THE LAUNCH!!!!
Author: Vanessa Shields
Writer. Mother. Lover.
POEM A DAY – June 27
Insatiable I’m am albatross wingsenergy-harnessing in the kitchenextracting thousands of calories for my upcoming blood-lettingmy hunger insatiable, my tongueoscillating between bites: pasta avocado, apple, chips, cheesesugar starch protein—the gangsare snapping and strutting in cupboards and on stovetopsI can’t stop eating and it’s notfor boredom or even craving it’s for my ravenous desire to soarto fill… Continue reading POEM A DAY – June 27
POEM A DAY – June 26
This Kind of Love loving my children is an internal violence.a persistent, profound murderingof all that is not soul-light.my blood moves in sacrificial screamsreleasing the worsts of my fears into thenavy-night skies that yearn for mymy obsessive worry-pain. the stars arethirsty for the slick wound that is forevermourning the loss of these lives from my… Continue reading POEM A DAY – June 26
VANESSA SHIELDS 