Her anxiety… …like the three-skin layer scratch on my thumb knucklepuffed pink edges, little sighs of pain & the scab catchingon polyester blends, the teal wool sweater, the yellow&whitestriped dish towel – I can’t take it away the line of wound the regimen of stinging how it feels itselfmuch more than it will ever show… Continue reading Poem 271 & Reviews x 2!
Poem 270 – Haiku for When Daughters Cry
Haiku for When Daughters Cry Oceans pause mid waveDark closes its eyes – exhalesTime begins to stitch
Poem 269 – Self Portrait On A Walk Beside the Sunrise, St. Marys, ON
Self-Portrait On A Walk Beside The Sunrise skin tightens pulled awake by the stringsof dew-dazzling wind wispscheeks puff like mallard’s featheredthroats – green-deep-startled leaves cling to stones in swerving-waterbrooks – my worries lifting lusty to join the vitalitymovement forward on slippery wood & thoughtsimprinting on thick-tufted grass centuries woveninto the earth this silence geese-gaggle-broken the… Continue reading Poem 269 – Self Portrait On A Walk Beside the Sunrise, St. Marys, ON
VANESSA SHIELDS 