it is a risky move and the timing is never going to be right w(itch) makes sense considering there’s never a good time to ground myself in the swirling extraordinary chaotic energy of using my voice as a translator for my heart’s mad rationalities. it is not lost on me, that the stress of throat-chakra… Continue reading POEM A DAY – April 17
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POEM A DAY – March 18
womb thrumming in the darkness of excitementthat dread-heavy tightening between shame and ecstasyfrenetic fertility flight – light lashing waves of affirmative action, the body astral in pleasure’s mouth. A single eggslow, bloated yet bellicose, bellyclose, a final miracle in maybe-ed movement, will drop into oblivion, living lastly in the reds of moonsong, soaked or wiped, flushedaway in gratitude,… Continue reading POEM A DAY – March 18
POEM A DAY – February 17
Fog for those of us with our head in the cloudswhen the clouds touch down, we groundbow into the surrender of that which wecan see but cannot hold, like all the bestthings: love, laughter, heat, dreams bow into the surrender of height daringto fall, to feel branch tips like soft kissessuck the marrow from dampening… Continue reading POEM A DAY – February 17
Poem 14 – New Moon Mediation – The Mountain Goat
New Moon Meditation - The Mountain Goat I envision a mountain goatIt is maleA worn copper bellhangs under his chinHe has buck teethbright white like Chicletsstartling blue eyes a smile that lifts moreon the right than on the lefta laugh hides under hisbottom lip The mountain goat eats rootsMy rootsPlunged deeply in thecentre of the earthHe… Continue reading Poem 14 – New Moon Mediation – The Mountain Goat
VANESSA SHIELDS 