Octopus Today I Am Octopus8-Limbed3-HeartedBlue-blooded Water AlienGliding Across Ground Above & Below Such Suction-Heavy Solitary Living IsSoul Saturation Under The InfluenceOf Moon & Her Feisty Phases I Do Not Digress Rather Spread MyTenacious Tentacles & Embrace TheCurrent Of My Ink-Brimming Brain Today I Am OctopusI Do Not Wait For DreamsWhen I Can Hold 8 At… Continue reading Poem 341-Octopus & Gertrude’s Writing Room Open House #shoplocal
Category: On Writing
Poem 340 Twenty-first Century Alternatives to the Opening Line of Mrs Dalloway
Twenty-first Century Alternatives to the Opening Line of Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the batteries (for her vibrator) herself.Mrs Dalloway said they would attend the protest themself.Mrs Dalloway said he would cook dinner himself.Mrs Dalloway said she would get the vaccination herself.Mrs Dalloway said they would judge the case… Continue reading Poem 340 Twenty-first Century Alternatives to the Opening Line of Mrs Dalloway
Poem 339 – I’ll Be Dreamscaping
I’ll be Dreamscaping taking a shovel (soft-edged)to the pipes in patient waitinggathering seeds of storiesflitting in my femur, picking uppoetry pods littered & stuckin my pancreas – oh, wonder!oh, curiosity! oh, muse naked& aroused I’ll be with you soon
Poem 337 & 338
337 - Haiku for Carlos Ruiz Zafón you did it again*cleared my mind of poetryI’m in your labyrinth *Friends, it happened again. All day I reminded myself: writeyourpoemwriteyourpoemwriteyourpoem. And the day flew by with moments to fill with poetry...but instead I held up his book, Labyrinth of the Spirts...and I was gone. I stopped because… Continue reading Poem 337 & 338
VANESSA SHIELDS 