Upon Entering My Bedroom After Dinner the way the smell of our meallands like a room within a roomcurtains of carbsbed of butteregg yolk sizzle moments in a housewhen it reveals its layersthe way it decorateswith scents paints nostalgiain my nostrils likehair triggers for whena waft of the past expandsin a foreign air around me… Continue reading Poem 243 – Upon Entering My Bedroom After Dinner
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Poem 243 – Kempe: Creature
Kempe: Creature She names herselfCreature: this creature thisthis creature thatand the Lord visited this creatureand this creature keenly weptand this creature extravagantly sobbed* These are this creature’s words in the bestway she can offer them as this creatureis a woman forbidden to read and writein her time She names herselfCreature: What’s in a name?a world… Continue reading Poem 243 – Kempe: Creature
Poem 242 – Haiku for Love
Haiku for love Purple paint on nailsMy man calls them E.T. toesOur love leaves footprints
Poem 240 & 241 – Well, It Happened & Early Morning on the 401
Well, It Happened… After a pretty sound sleep & rising before the sun,it hits me like a dropped book on the hardwood floor –I forgot to write a poem yesterday!And I blame Harry, Hagrid, Hermione & Hogwarts.I blame the big comfy chair, buttery popcorn, sleepy time tea& polka dot jammies.After 239 poems written240 slipped into… Continue reading Poem 240 & 241 – Well, It Happened & Early Morning on the 401
VANESSA SHIELDS 