The Intimacy of the World Unmasked, a glosaWith inspiration from Franz Kafka, “…The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice. It will roll in ecstasy at your feet…” Gravity holds us to a planetwe hold each other or we don’thold each other & how we got hereremains maskedThe… Continue reading #NPM22 – The Intimacy of the World Unmasked
Tag: Poetry
#NPM Intimacy Poems – Disappearing, Worry, Yin Yoga, Kitchen Dancing
The Intimacy of Disappearing there is worth beyond the wordsthis is a hard truth for a writer& so, she learns to disappearwhen the learning is in the bellylandsacral sacred wound unfurlingchanting in a different languageshe used to understand, bodies ago The Intimacy of Worry Is in the fallacy of controlI think I have when I… Continue reading #NPM Intimacy Poems – Disappearing, Worry, Yin Yoga, Kitchen Dancing
#NPM22 – The Intimacy of the Pepper Spray Incident
The Intimacy of the Pepper Spray IncidentA hiabun the knock on the door says hurryhurryhurryonce opened, it is a mouth swallowing fire two teens, male, one shirtlesseyes bursting angry redstears and snot and terror I take an elbow, skin coldbody shiveringlead him to the bathroom sink J takes the otherleads a curving spineto the kitchen… Continue reading #NPM22 – The Intimacy of the Pepper Spray Incident
VANESSA SHIELDS 