Target & Teacher & Telling without fail, fifteen minutes into every exercise I doI enter the stationary section in Windsor’s old Targetthe journals the notecards the stickers the cheeky literary books –cradle my bouncing heart like a library made just for merows of wooden shelves filled with & paper all saying the same thing:keep goingthen… Continue reading Poem 276 – Target & Teacher & Telling PLUS Gertrude’s October Offerings
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Poem 197 – High Intensity Resistance Writing
High Intensity Resistance WritingFor Paul Resistance is a fierce ability every writer cultivatesIt is a practice for flexing creative muscles that shouldbe honed every day for at least twenty minutes The higher the intensity resistancethe higher the creative outputWriters need six-to-eight cups of curiosity a dayto keep confidence hydrated Stretching fingers and forearmstwisting spines and… Continue reading Poem 197 – High Intensity Resistance Writing
Poem 160 Debates for Morning run
Debates for Morning run The great debate begins before my limbsknow they are limbs Should I run? NoShould I go for a run?NoShould I go for a short run? UghIt’s a gorgeous morning!Fine! Then my limbs tingleanticipation of their usea muscular aphrodisiac It’s lift-off the bedget dressedbrush teethready music & run into the day Shaky with limbic lustI thrustmy… Continue reading Poem 160 Debates for Morning run
VANESSA SHIELDS, writer 