Today marks the half-way point of Spring - aka Beltane! It gives me calm to know that we're smack dab in the middle of re-wilding change...and that despite the chill that continues to assert itself, sustained summer warmth is coming. And, it's Friday! Yahoo! OH, and it's A FULL MOON tonight! Trees in Sky today… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 1
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POEM A DAY – April 8
Elementary School in April When I am Nine the daffodils stand like 1950s girls against a greenwall at a dance, arms swaying, hair coiffed, lips puckered in wait. they are everywhere. in front gardens i walk past on the six blocks to school, lunch bucket gripped in my coldhand. backpack heavy with anxiety and books. my kneesnumb… Continue reading POEM A DAY – April 8
POEM A DAY – April 3
wearing a dress on a spring morning green with white flowersballoon sleevesleft slit thigh-high calves and toeswinter hairywedding bandsmagnet ringbeaded necklacefeather earringsfrom auntie M wind whips close eyeshead backarms wideheart open secure themessagein skin here nowgust-ed and these...everywhere. Beauty, beauty, beauty!
VANESSA SHIELDS 