Keeping busyFor M to skirt the mind’s madness, to suit-up against the heart’s desire to think about what’s missing because everywhere you look, it’s possible that all you see is lack, loss, lustre-listless. ennui sounds delightful on the tongue but weighs the muscles like acid, lactic lackadaisical. listen to love songs to lavish the lashes,… Continue reading POEM A DAY – August 3
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POEM A DAY – July 27
sometimes we don’t see the end I mean, how could we?eyes filtered with shades of redmuscles jazz-handingskin zinging from touches that move dreams into concretefutures: marriage, house, babythe inevitability of hardshipslaughable because love because in love everythingis possible except the endand this is not a denial of deathbecause love cradles death a lullaby of knowing…… Continue reading POEM A DAY – July 27
VANESSA SHIELDS 