Below Zero, Again I’d like to announce that I am ready to farewell my bootsto stop untwisting and yanking up socks that come half off whensaid boots get stuck as I almost-fall trying to balance, heaviedby a picky-feathered winter parka – I’m done, thank you. I burned my forearm whilst taking dinner out of the… Continue reading POEM A DAY – February 25
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POEM A DAY – February 21 & FORUM UPDATE
Like, if me then youFor C, from No, Thank You when I was little, like, four, I heardyou can be whatever you like and I believed it. but, like, when I wasnine, I knew I wouldn’t be a broadway child starthat my sun would come out tomorrow shining onthe sliver-giving picnic table (my stage) in… Continue reading POEM A DAY – February 21 & FORUM UPDATE
POEM A DAY – January 26
Blinds In my dream this morning in the four o’clock stomach: a toddler, blonde haired, blue-eyed, wore a dress with a hem with a frothy white circumference, in a house filled with rooms half-furnished, blinds mostly closed, and the one I tried to open wanted to fight, the pull strings and the long plastic twisty… Continue reading POEM A DAY – January 26
VANESSA SHIELDS 