Remember What You Did Remember when you did that? When you bought a one-way ticketto fly out west by yourself?Remember stuffing your green backpack so full the seams whimpered?Remember all the aloneness? How youleaned into it? How it lifted the weightof the planet off your shoulders as theplane soared over the rockies? Remember how you needed to golike… Continue reading Poem 223 – Remember What You Did
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Poem 215 – Questions About Words
Questions about words Sometimes when I say a word out loudover & overit stops making sense at allbecomes a slew of soundsmy tongue litters out & my brainleaves on the ground a verbal garbage Is there a word for this?When a word stops being a word & becomes asoundscape? Certain words just do not stay… Continue reading Poem 215 – Questions About Words
Poem 22 – What The Mind Forgets, The Heart Remembers
What The Mind Forgets, The Heart RemembersFor Linda C. decades of dayslived togetherburnt toastflooded basementmice in walls where minutes lap like Lake Erie warmed in the hot summer sunlost breath after sexholding handseyes that talk the soul writes your storyon the chamber walls in your heartstucks in the meaty foldsunknowns that paralyzeoffspring in painlupus latching on the… Continue reading Poem 22 – What The Mind Forgets, The Heart Remembers
VANESSA SHIELDS, writer 