Grad Days On the bed, I gather my daughter under my armI open to the journal entry I wrote about finishing high schoolShe reads it out loud, stumbling on my messy cursive wordsWe laugh at the similarities: the dreaded math examthe pull of adulthood on our minds, the exhaustion in our bodies Then the dog… Continue reading POEM A DAY – June 15
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POEM A DAY – March 4
*Gentle Warning:There is an expletive in this poem. Its contents describe a panic attack. panikattack in Ikea. my body undoing in the doing of buying, in the doing of being daughter-side, too many people, too many things, too much ‘this is how to live in spaces with things’, the lights daggering, my eyes double-visioning, lost… Continue reading POEM A DAY – March 4
VANESSA SHIELDS 