Monday Morning Dream The puppy lays on my chest, his paws on each side of my neck like trees, his fur forests my throat and I feel safe to fall back asleep and dream. The sun rises, pouring hot strands of light on our slumbering faces. My eyelids, like frosted-glass doors, turn my dreamscape red.… Continue reading POEM A DAY – June 8
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POEM A DAY – March 6
Last night, we started the first of our six-week poetry feedback class. Clearly our sharing infiltrated my dreams...with thanks to Erika, Krithica, Mariette, Robyn, Janet and Cassie. After Poetry Class, Last Night’s Dream iridescent-skinned bugs with wings and pinchersbite my calf, distracting me from Tom Cruise’s lips. the tight pain cue me to more danger:… Continue reading POEM A DAY – March 6
Poem 339 – I’ll Be Dreamscaping
I’ll be Dreamscaping taking a shovel (soft-edged)to the pipes in patient waitinggathering seeds of storiesflitting in my femur, picking uppoetry pods littered & stuckin my pancreas – oh, wonder!oh, curiosity! oh, muse naked& aroused I’ll be with you soon
VANESSA SHIELDS 