IT'S IN THE PROOF! Indeed, is it ever in the proof! So, I excitedly opened the package from the printer which included a proof (a single, printed copy of the book for one final look-through before printing many more copies) of We the Mourners. I had a great WAH WAH. The cover looked downright awful.… Continue reading NEW COVER REVEAL & BOOK LAUNCH DETAILS!
Category: On Writing
POEM A DAY – May 19
Languid today gives the word its lifeas the heat wraps my bonesin sluggish slack & my spirittwists in lethargy, it’s a punymiracle I can make a short poem between reading & longing for a screened-in porch with a creaky daybed& my 12-year-old selfnaming the boys I hope kiss me by the leechy pondunder a full moon
POEM A DAY – May 18
Ecstasy is wider now a Capertee canyonrolling, richsweating, swervinghis expert fingersvibrational pressuregusts poundingsupple edgestightenedde capo ariariver rupturescells astralpleasure-pulsed
VANESSA SHIELDS 