On the Benefits of Procrastination More sleepDusted garbage pail lidsMounds of dog hair vacuumedDishes washedBooks shelvedClothes put awayEmpty laundry basketsAnimals brushedFriends helpedBed madeAn orgasmBed re-madeMind clearedThis poem
Category: On Writing
Poem 22 – What The Mind Forgets, The Heart Remembers
What The Mind Forgets, The Heart RemembersFor Linda C. decades of dayslived togetherburnt toastflooded basementmice in walls where minutes lap like Lake Erie warmed in the hot summer sunlost breath after sexholding handseyes that talk the soul writes your storyon the chamber walls in your heartstucks in the meaty foldsunknowns that paralyzeoffspring in painlupus latching on the… Continue reading Poem 22 – What The Mind Forgets, The Heart Remembers
Poem 21 – break
break A convergence of too many thoughtsStutters the clutch so I brake [break] Consider the white eyebrow I pluckedHow it didn’t hurt when I yanked it out Like it was waitingTo be chosen Blue Sky reveals herselfMakes a statement of reclamation This day belongs to us she exclaimsShe is another kind of waiting another… Continue reading Poem 21 – break
VANESSA SHIELDS 