Today (A Kind of List Poem) I start the day at 5:15amI light candles & write with friendsponder my lack of usage of the word ‘radiant’I learn about the Berlin wall jelly donutabout galactic incompetence & the omni-verse consider the suggestion to say ‘happy harvest’ instead of ‘happy thanksgiving’ I submit ten grant applications & have… Continue reading Poem 280 – Today ( A Kind of List Poem)
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Poem 278 – In the Shower
In the Shower “…you can’t dance and stay uptight…” Dancing in the Moonlight, King Harvest We try to dance & stay uptight butit is impossiblehips tockingarms wailingparts flipping & floppingilluminated by a long-agopenned lyric our naked bodiesage to the beats of google-summoned music Facebook & instagram disappear into the ether of our lovewe laugh, oh… Continue reading Poem 278 – In the Shower
Poem 277 – Murmuration
Murmuration It’s changing – againthis flock of starling griefwweeping into new skies of grey painholding weather in the forest of my ribs I miss you, of coursebut differently – in lessgrand pronouncements…I’m sorry if that hurts you Today, I’d give a limb to rest my headon your shoulderinhale your smile pausein the wisdom… Continue reading Poem 277 – Murmuration
Poem 276 – Target & Teacher & Telling PLUS Gertrude’s October Offerings
Target & Teacher & Telling without fail, fifteen minutes into every exercise I doI enter the stationary section in Windsor’s old Targetthe journals the notecards the stickers the cheeky literary books –cradle my bouncing heart like a library made just for merows of wooden shelves filled with & paper all saying the same thing:keep goingthen… Continue reading Poem 276 – Target & Teacher & Telling PLUS Gertrude’s October Offerings
VANESSA SHIELDS 