Night Settles In my bra is offmy belly is freethe tick on the clock is a foreign languagethe bed has been serenading me since I got homekicked off my boots & got licked by the dogs the entire time I was picking up dog poopall I thought about was picking up dog poop(three bags full)(three… Continue reading Poem 309 – Night Settles In
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Poem 259 – Fall Night
Fall Night for Monti the scent of orangedeep like changeburnt & crispylike summer’s skinpeeling to coolits tender bones the darkness darkerlayered like secretseigengrau & onyxlike shadow’s shadowripening to burstits widening playground these fall nights turn like pages in season’s grimoire –leaf’s veins weeping the last of warmth’s wishesstaining sidewalks in goodbye graffiti
Poem 255 – haiku for night
Haiku for Night this trampoline mindthoughts bounce land bounce land – then soarrecharge on the moon
VANESSA SHIELDS, writer 