Twenty-twenty-five is here! What a year number. It feel very...Back to the Future...but, like, the future is here...and it's not like I thought it would be. I don't 'feel' like a new year has begun. I don't feel like I want to start new things or 'resolve' old things...even though there is a part that… Continue reading 2025 – Journal, Seasons & Surrender
Tag: body
#NPM22 – The (Secret) Intimacy of the Photograph
The (Secret) Intimacy of the Photograph it is me and it is not meI transfix on the profile of An Otherwith my legs, covered in rose-garden pantyhose a shape a size a landscape, unfamiliarto my mind’s mirroryet there I amme but not me such displacementor dysmorphia orsuch rabid ability to despisedisrespect, such refusal of acceptancea… Continue reading #NPM22 – The (Secret) Intimacy of the Photograph
Curiosity & Confusion & Photos & Poetry
Curiosity Oh friends! It's been too long! It feels very...different to go from writing every.single.day for 365 days to writing every.single.day for 24 days this year...and then BAM stopping. But the truth is...I just can't do it again this year! There are too many other *BIG* things going on in my life. Perhaps I'll figure… Continue reading Curiosity & Confusion & Photos & Poetry
Poem 351 – What my shoulders said & why I listened
What my shoulders said & why I listened I’m done carrying all this weight, they saidIt’s too heavy, they continuedThe world, its death, its fear, its weather –We’re letting go of it all, they said. Neck, they said,You work so hard to hold up the headBut the head needs a rest, they saidLet us help… Continue reading Poem 351 – What my shoulders said & why I listened
VANESSA SHIELDS 