Found another rejected piece...did another little edit. Happy Monday! Call It it’s nearly ten & she’s still working. relativity is pain’s dialect. when resilience slips in, she exhales an eight count & then the dizzying inhalation like a thick black hair on the chin of her day that she can’t feel growing & she knows… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 11
Tag: Poetry
POEM A DAY – May 8
On the Poet’s Existential Creative Crisis of Needing to Write a Poem When the Exhaustion of Content Formulation Far Outweighs the Metaphysical Transcendence of Divine Expression what is the poet to do?eat a Ryan’s Signature Donut at the closest Tim Horton’slick fingertips sticky with maple and sugarride the hyperglycemia rollercoasterwonder if tagging Ryan Reynolds on instagram… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 8
POEM A DAY – May 7
Brownie for breakfast Because I’m a grown ass woman and can eat what I wantBecause I’m alone and it makes me feel betterBecause I baked them myselfBecause chocolateBecause deliciousBecause it’s sunnyBecause it’s ThursdayBecause why the fresh hell not?
VANESSA SHIELDS 