Found this piece in a 'rejection' pile...written in 2020, with a little editing...here's a re-vision! woman at a cross garden I risk damaging my skin to understandthe depths of the miracles making in her shadowsI fail to root with her a bristly purple flower blooms in my throatmy inner child wants to apologizefor choosing awe… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 3
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POEM A DAY – March 5
Tonka Truck I saved up my allowance(wrinkled grey and white onescrisp pink and red twos…wishing fora brisk blue five) and yearned forgarage-sale saturdays, for usednovels, torn-cornered and spinecrusted, for Barbie clothes and singleplastic white heels with the toesteeth-marked, for marbles and micro-machines, for slinkies and stickers:I wasn’t looking for the truck. Bright yellow metal, as… Continue reading POEM A DAY – March 5
POEM A DAY – January 4
This poem is inspired by this photo...an ekphrastic endeavour. Black & White Moment There’s a dog-chewed black and white photo of meTaped to the corner of the desktop computer My Zia’s head is mostly devouredOne eye, a nose, a chin She’s tall, wearing a polyester dressPatterned in floating branch bunches in watercolour swathes A long… Continue reading POEM A DAY – January 4
VANESSA SHIELDS 