While I was labelling all my journals over the holiday, I found something I'd written on the back of a page of stickers. It looks like it might have been the beginning of a song as 'bridge' and 'chorus' are included...And so, today we get a two-for...a two-fer? Two poems for one because I wanted… Continue reading Found Heart Poem, Amazon Poem
Poem 3 – Maple
Maple It seems to me that theNine-arm double-trunkMaple outside my windowLoves the snow Appreciates the stingOf its honest coldRespects the refreshingHand-holding flakes spreadOver its bark like a cardigan The tree is a displayOf humility – the night sky’sGifts received
Do You Know How Many Socks?
Do you know how many socks I walk by? There’s one in the hallwayhalf-full of someone’s ghost footcurled in an awkward twist against the air return grate. Another, thinned from beinggripped and stretched between the dog’s teeth, lays like a jazzsinger over a piano, except the piano in this case is a dog bonepurple and orange, seconded constantly by… Continue reading Do You Know How Many Socks?
VANESSA SHIELDS 