Durkheim & The Flat Globe we talk about Durkheimreligion suicide pathosresearch affect causality academia is a swiffer dustercleaning out cobwebs in my brainflipping on switches of electric pulses – zaps like skipping ropespounding concrete repetitious exercisesthat hurt a little because it’s all so big the information the implications the lightning-bolt terms makes my brain do that thingwhen… Continue reading Poem 102 – Durkheim & The Flat Globe
Author: Vanessa Shields
Writer. Mother. Lover.
Poem 101 – Suburban gulls
Suburban gulls two gulls wail on afternoon windpulling my eyes & ears to the tender blue skycuriosity moves my mind – why are they here?these parts are roofs & concrete cars & grassfishless water hides under tightly closed tarpsnothing here for a frenzy more screams pierce the calmare they warnings or desperate love songs?perhaps this… Continue reading Poem 101 – Suburban gulls
Poem 100 – Duplex for Childhood
Duplex for Childhood Childhood waits in a long line.The door is mostly closed. The door opens on its own time.A little girl scoots forward. My little girl is eager & afraid. The past is jagged shadows. Her shadows live in the present.I see my hand knock on the door. There was no door in the bathroom.His… Continue reading Poem 100 – Duplex for Childhood
VANESSA SHIELDS 