The way she looked at me For N. into me, the way she read the words out loud, a few at a time, held them in her mouth, tastebuds shocking, savouring then swallowing the meanings, her blue aventurine eyes pushing brilliance, bridging us in a spectral hue of heaving hearts…I mean, my heart was heaving,… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 5
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POEM A DAY – May 4
Last night we watched the film Blue Moon starring Ethan Hawke, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott and Margret Qually, directed by Richard Linklater, written by Robert Kaplow based on letters between Lorenza Hart and Elizabeth Weiland. Today's poem is inspired by the film! Also, *there's blue moon this month*! That means, it's the second full moon… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 4
POEM A DAY – May 3
Found this piece in a 'rejection' pile...written in 2020, with a little editing...here's a re-vision! woman at a cross garden I risk damaging my skin to understandthe depths of the miracles making in her shadowsI fail to root with her a bristly purple flower blooms in my throatmy inner child wants to apologizefor choosing awe… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 3
VANESSA SHIELDS 