The Intimacy of the Muumuu beneath the colours, soft cotton, wide berth naked freedom, breasts breathing opening the space between skin & covering – the letting-go-of-the-day-dress she puts on when she wants to run away it keeps her home-bound, unwound conjures reading & candles lit to light the shadows out of hiding, into hymn –… Continue reading #NPM22 – The Intimacy of the Muumuu
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#NPM22 – The Intimacy of Preparing A Ledger for Taxes
The Intimacy of Preparing A Ledger for Taxes dizzyingly detrimental to the soul quantifying the energetic exchange of creativity numbers in a box the [sum] of our poems added / subtracted divided deciphering the codes in the black in the red[unbearable] + [frustrating] + [feel stupid] = finishing in a heap of hidden tearsanger cleaning to shed… Continue reading #NPM22 – The Intimacy of Preparing A Ledger for Taxes
#NPM22 – The Intimacy of Morning Menses
The Intimacy of Morning Menses I am coming, she saysarriving in the lower back, clawing Punching holes in skin, rising in redsher colour spectrum ripe Pay attention to me, she whisperscrawling in the abdomen, knifing She grips the mind and stirs ittakes away its clarity I am here, she exclaimsplanting in the ovaries, raking She… Continue reading #NPM22 – The Intimacy of Morning Menses
VANESSA SHIELDS 