Dear Hafiz You make it seem so easy Like the words & nature & your heart & your penare collected & connected in one sustained & precise moment Like flow is inevitable & if you move a sofa or tilt your headyou find poems alive & giddy & open-palmed – daring you to catch them… Continue reading Poem 134 – Dear Hafiz & PEP & AWISC!
Poem 133 – Sapphic Voltas & Spring Launch Tonight!
Sapphic Voltas What if today I give worry a fiddle?Let finishing plunder & instead diddle?Deep laugh at pain & embrace the middle? Release the riddle I got this great book entitled: Poetry 101: A Crash Course in Poetry by Susan Dalzell. Today's poem is written in Sapphic meter. "...attributed to the poet Sappho, this meter… Continue reading Poem 133 – Sapphic Voltas & Spring Launch Tonight!
Poem 132 – Even when
Even when Even when you have everything you need the voice turns to hand & holdinga dull kitchen knife – like the one you use to sshhhllllttt open the Amazon box – cuts you wide then points inside to that writhing worm of envy slick & shiny teeth biting at the cold air wall of… Continue reading Poem 132 – Even when
Poem 131 Watch & Listen & Howl & Launch!
watch & listen golden-headed dandelion bends gracefully to peer at poisonous bindweedcanada thistle in all her prickly pride gazes kindly at thirsty nutsedgeeven bustling buckhorn plantain stares plainly at heat-loving crabgrass weeds trees & herbs liverworts mosses & creepersmillions of living watching millions of living in observational feastsan infinite exchange of paying attention & listening… Continue reading Poem 131 Watch & Listen & Howl & Launch!
VANESSA SHIELDS 