Work it’s nearly ten & she’s still workingwhat does that even mean?categorizing expressions of livingchanges them in her bodywith each new meaninginterspersing like shrapnelthen eating news that warsdamage in her guts relativity is pain’s dialectwhen resilience slips inshe exhales to an 8 countbut the inhalation alwaysarrives – a thick black hairon the chin of her… Continue reading Poem 336 – Work
Category: On Writing
Poem 335 – Tell Each Other & Yin Writing
Tell Each Other The following things: If there’s a rice-looking snot in a nostril (or any shape of snot, actually)If there’s a dark chunk of food between teeth (or any coloured chunk of food, actually) If breathe is deathlyIf a bra shows throughIf ear wax is showingIf one smells like poo If you need an… Continue reading Poem 335 – Tell Each Other & Yin Writing
Poem 334 – The Unfinished
The Unfinished Like flags at half mastKnow this position won’t lastFor change comes on steady blowsWhen the hours fill fastAnd grief slips slowly into pastAnd strength to rise up grows On darkened mornings in rough seesThe writer learns to know her abilitiesAnd fear takes the plank then does a diveThe words are generous with their… Continue reading Poem 334 – The Unfinished
Poem 332 & 333 PLUS Reading tomorrow night!
Poem 332 - Why I Forgot to Write Yesterday's Poem Why I Forgot to Write Yesterday’s Poem it was Carlos’* faultI opened his bookstarted reading & got suckedinto his labyrinthone hundred pageslater & night waspulling its star-studdedquilt over the skymy eyes succumbedto closing all rememberings for poetryfolded into his storyit was Carlos’ fault& he’ll make forgetagain – I… Continue reading Poem 332 & 333 PLUS Reading tomorrow night!
VANESSA SHIELDS 