September 12[This is my poem to the world]After Emily Dickinson’s [This is my letter to the World] This is my poem to the WorldA place in which I long–Where voices rise like fire hurled–One yearning tender song Our lyrics are outstandingTo all the hearts belong–For love is water for the firesWe truth before we wrong… Continue reading POEM A DAY – Sept 12
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First Official Book Review for We the Mourners! FIVE STARS
Super thank you to the Literary Titan family for reading and reviewing We the Mourners! Here is the full five-star review! LINK HERE FOR MORE REVIEWS OF OTHER BOOKS! We the Mourners, by Vanessa Shields, is a poetry collection about grief, love, embodiment, and the strange communal work of surviving loss. Built around the repeated… Continue reading First Official Book Review for We the Mourners! FIVE STARS
POEM A DAY – March 19
This Now The dog snores.The coffee colds.The heat whirs. Pope JoanHestiaSappho and Marguerite Porete await my attention.The journal pulses. Death is open-mouthedswallowing anotherbody into its belly depth, darkness:the hold before a new birthing untangles into thelight. Grief is agrotto we slink into – weep, laughsigh, sleep. Ourflushed cheeks press againstseashell walls.
VANESSA SHIELDS 