An Exhausted One-liner After the First 24 hours of Our New Puppy Living With Us the pup sleeps on my foot Friends...I am soooo exhausted! In a flurry of furry irony...here are pics of Wallace sleeping...and one showing how when he lays down, he crosses his paws. Oof. He's tremendously adorable. Pages is...adapting. She's cautious… Continue reading POEM A DAY – March 29
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POEM A DAY – March 28
Snow in April March I know there’s three more days of March but my mind is in April, and my stomach is in Tuscany, and my spine is in bed, and my legs are knee deep in Lake Huron in July. I know the earth is spinning and that Mother Nature is getting dizzy and… Continue reading POEM A DAY – March 28
POEM A DAY – March 22
As I mentioned in my last post, on Friday I was at a fundraiser where I offered Poetry on Demand. What is that? It is a fun, poem-making experience I've been doing for years...I have bowls of word cubes that people choose from...up to three words per person. Sometimes they choose randomly. Sometimes they look… Continue reading POEM A DAY – March 22
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 