Haiku for gift wrapping folding over loveinto your heart for tearingperfect like birth light Zoom Reading w/ Natalie Meisner this Wednesday! Do join myself and playwright, poet, mega-writer Natalie Meisner as we're welcomed into the By the River Reading Series 2021! This Windsor-based reading series is the only of its kind in our humble rose… Continue reading Poem 347 – Haiku for Wrapping & Reading on Wed!
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Poem 346 – Inbox
Inbox filled with joy loss duty drivel dreams loveholding time memories bills bliss in a web of when
Poem 344 – Contour
Contour this morning I contour a drawing of us into my throatso that every breath in & outevery word spoken or swallowedkeeps us deeply connected
Poem 343 – I Know Why Skin
Alert: There is a curse word in this poem I know why skin I know why it existsto containAll. Of. It. thepainthegorethepleasurethedarktheconfusionthebloodthehopethegraspthedesperationthedreamthepassiontheorgasmthelosstheslobberthemuscletheknowingtheempathytheragethefearthenoisethepasttheliesthestoriesthetruththefirethetastethejoytheheartthelove the What the Fuck of It Allthe glorious hasty extraordinary vomitous victory of Living (yes, I know it is not indestructible that it changes reshapes reflects redefines holds the codes for my every… Continue reading Poem 343 – I Know Why Skin
VANESSA SHIELDS 