I continue to be inspired and awed and provoked by Allen Levi's novel Theo of Golden. This poem is inspired by a letter in the book about how newborns reach for faces, for connections in seeing and being seen... Find a face today choose the eyesdare to lock into awe-gaze within the silky coloursof the soul’swaiting windowsnod… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 9
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POEM A DAY – May 6
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POEM A DAY – May 5
The way she looked at me For N. into me, the way she read the words out loud, a few at a time, held them in her mouth, tastebuds shocking, savouring then swallowing the meanings, her blue aventurine eyes pushing brilliance, bridging us in a spectral hue of heaving hearts…I mean, my heart was heaving,… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 5
VANESSA SHIELDS 