March!! We made it! Another Photo Taped to the Computer Screen There’s a polaroid I’ve taped to the corner of the computer screen.I’m in it. A different me. Younger, thinner, a different kind of happier.She wears funky glasses and her head is shaved to a soft fluff, thegrays like a subtle halo. She looks boldly… Continue reading POEM A DAY – March 1
POEM A DAY – February 28
Happiness Depends Upon Ourselves, says AristotleFor C C sends me ‘quotes of the day’and I get poems, at least three, each morning like kites flying above me I can stare at lovinglyor that give me a childish giggle or that I can pull down and touch, inspect intricacies, keep or releasethis tender morning, Aristotle tells… Continue reading POEM A DAY – February 28
POEM A DAY – February 27
Dirt sometimes it surprises me how much dirt gets under my fingernails the deep browns the flat blacks the urgent yells of green grime but I secretly love the two-step process of burrowing a nail under a nail and scraping out the grot then scraping out the grot again – the small collection of yuck… Continue reading POEM A DAY – February 27
VANESSA SHIELDS 