donation as I bathed in treeswatched my friendsmy family work hardlooked at the greyclouds bringing thesky ceiling to whereI could reach up& touch it I did that I touched it& I felt old stormstingling out of myfingertips donatingmy sorrows to thespace betweenthe treetops & thesoaring hawk
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POEM A DAY – July 25
maybe as adults we use the same wordswe maybe even feel the same feelingsabout our bodies, about the dis-easesthat challenge our guts and our joints we maybe even pray to the same marysand dance to the same madonna, it’spossible our mother wound is the sameshape… but I’m fairly certain it’s not the same size. I… Continue reading POEM A DAY – July 25
POEM A DAY – July 19
Crooked Family mother’s familial shapeistriangular she apexesthendaughter & other daughter a trifectathreesomethree musketeers west-end girls except daughterdeviates& angles shift tectonic loveindisruption mother’sscarcrooked over her collarbone daughterleaves& sides collapse families end, girls
VANESSA SHIELDS 