Beautiful Maria Bison Today is four years since my beautiful Nonna passed away. I awoke feeling her spirit near. My mom sent me a text with the above photo included in it. This is one of our favourite photos of my Nonna. Can you see her gentleness, her curiosity, her love, her love, her love?!… Continue reading Four Years, Solstice, Teeth, Tomorrow
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Poem 219 – Twenty-Seven-Page Journal Entry
Twenty-Seven-Page Journal Entry The mother of all journalsA mother writes in a journalJournals listen to mothersListening to mothers write is symphonicMothers sing a symphony of release when writing in journals
Poem 216 – What Happens When I Buy A Journal For My New Poetry
What Happens When I Buy A Journal For My New Poetry They’re in me nowSmart Kempe Plath EchlinFour storms of weathering behind my kneecaps – shyBut curious, changing my gaitThey do thatExtraordinary womenDive inside meOlympians of wordsI’m a country they take overSoon we will all be biting goldRevelling in each other’s linguistic personal bests
VANESSA SHIELDS 