PARIS, AT DAWN Another me slipped under my skinlast night as I was readingshe grabbed onto my spinelike it was a light lamp in Parismy blood – a red-tinged fog She was in Paris swingingaround the post one arm outhugging the belly of the infant morningshe’d been up all night dancingonly the sequence on her… Continue reading Poem 5 – Paris, at dawn
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Found Heart Poem, Amazon Poem
While I was labelling all my journals over the holiday, I found something I'd written on the back of a page of stickers. It looks like it might have been the beginning of a song as 'bridge' and 'chorus' are included...And so, today we get a two-for...a two-fer? Two poems for one because I wanted… Continue reading Found Heart Poem, Amazon Poem
Do You Know How Many Socks?
Do you know how many socks I walk by? There’s one in the hallwayhalf-full of someone’s ghost footcurled in an awkward twist against the air return grate. Another, thinned from beinggripped and stretched between the dog’s teeth, lays like a jazzsinger over a piano, except the piano in this case is a dog bonepurple and orange, seconded constantly by… Continue reading Do You Know How Many Socks?
For me, this has been a time of…#morningcoffeesessions
living things for me this has been a time of gentle consistent denial desperate powerful pushing A W A Y of hailstorms each icy ping of virus-fact rain smacking tender parts of me the side of my neck the under of my armpit the dimples above my bum cold awakenings jolt my emotions into hyperdrive… Continue reading For me, this has been a time of…#morningcoffeesessions
VANESSA SHIELDS 