First kiss it is all frayed nerves & flapping overwhelmit is all electric fear & limb zapsit is all blood & gore & rips & rageit is the thing beyond a labour of utter ugly love it is not snot-heavy on a freezing evening in a dirty alleyit is not horny-hearted on a dance floor… Continue reading Poem 327 – First Kiss
Category: On Writing
Poem 326 – It Will Happen & Next Stop on the Virtual Book Tour!
It will happen I wonder when it will happenwhen I will take to the paint brushor the sewing machine or the guitarlike i take to the pen when I’ll walkevery day nap every day read everyday eat healthy every day – help myself to dirt or sand or treetrunk or cloud or moon or starthe… Continue reading Poem 326 – It Will Happen & Next Stop on the Virtual Book Tour!
Poem 325 – seeing
seeing before my mother named the diseaseit appeared in thick black letters betweenmy skull bone & my forehead skin there like a stamp revealedthere between my two eyes –another seeing I felt frightened but also surequietly sure then in the car a light caught my eyeit was the fat moon watching mea smirk lifting her… Continue reading Poem 325 – seeing
Poem 324 – Hair
Hair why am I letting it grow?watching in frustrated disdain as it pushesslower than a wounded snail out my pink scalpa mash of greys whites blackslike salt & pepper got in a fight & then gave upwalked away – tired & bored why am I letting it grow?a test of patience & will& that amazing… Continue reading Poem 324 – Hair
VANESSA SHIELDS 