I continue to be inspired and awed and provoked by Allen Levi's novel Theo of Golden. This poem is inspired by a letter in the book about how newborns reach for faces, for connections in seeing and being seen... Find a face today choose the eyesdare to lock into awe-gaze within the silky coloursof the soul’swaiting windowsnod… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 9
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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 