Today Is My 48th Birthday & Instead of Writing A Poem I Lived It
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46: Self-Portrait in the Pause – Part I
SELF-PORTRAIT, MAY 28, 2024 I had a panic attack the afternoon of my 46th birthday. It was around 3pm. I was driving to pick up my son, after I had a lovely lunch with a loved one. The panic attack started during the lunch, but I wasn't sure what was happening so I did my… Continue reading 46: Self-Portrait in the Pause – Part I
Poem 148 – on sharing the same birthday with my son
On sharing the same birthday with my son possessed by loveriveted by miraclesconvulsing in the painful thrusting trustof my woman’s body to release a child –this work of delivering lasts beyond the 27 hoursit took to move him from my womb to my chestparts of me were demolished & rebuilt now I repeat this destruction… Continue reading Poem 148 – on sharing the same birthday with my son
VANESSA SHIELDS 