September 4 Reading Instead of WritingAfter Doris Lessing’s The Summer Before The Dark the woman in the book galavants in Spain with her lovershe ponders the seascapedrinks bitter coffee touches her manicuredfingertips to her bottom lip everything is sensationalyet inside, she tumultsher son’s voice, wickedslithers the snake of darknessher mother-skin half-shedshe dreams of a lost seal the… Continue reading POEM A DAY – Sept. 4 & 5 & Interview Event Tomorrow!
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POEM A DAY – September 1
Feeling Haiku ripe anger canyonhummingbird wings weak in windsfeeder out of reach Tender Freedoms It's September first and I'm having some feelings about it! Parts of me are flabbergasted - how could this be happening already? Where did August go? I'm. Not. Ready. For. Socks. And yet, other parts of me are makings lists: Fall… Continue reading POEM A DAY – September 1
THREE-POEM CATCH-UP!
Friends! Gah. And so, after 231 poems in a row, life got too busy, my exhaustion took the lead, and I let it. On Friday, August 21, I was on the film set for thirteen hours and when I got home, I couldn't do anything but eat, rest then sleep! Then, yesterday, I drove to… Continue reading THREE-POEM CATCH-UP!
VANESSA SHIELDS 