Bred bounty when the bounty comes from the earthyou plant it in, you can taste the difference the slick of salt slipped off your browelevates the lettuce leaf the oil on your palm rubbed on the unripe tomato hippushes it to blush red the green pepper cucumberstrawberry & onion can feel your tender gaze &… Continue reading Poem 234 – Bred Bounty
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Poem 222 – Ritual
Ritual I pull the twisting line of lavender sagesmoke over my heart with the strong backboneand supple edges of a turkey feather Help me, I whisper into the burning curl of moving shadow when I try to touch the smoke it curves around my fingersa reshaping wispbecoming more itself as it liftsspreads and dissipates into… Continue reading Poem 222 – Ritual
Poem 205 – Double Haiku for 205 Poems
Double Haiku for 205 Poems Less to write than I’ve already written (10)Some days pulling words out of my mind mouth I wish for gas (14)The laughing kind – kind laughter helps me write (10) HAPPY ANNIVERSARY GERTRUDE'S WRITING ROOM! HAPPY THREE YEAR ANNIVERSARY to Gertrude's Writing Room! To commemorate this most excellent celebration, we… Continue reading Poem 205 – Double Haiku for 205 Poems
VANESSA SHIELDS 