Book In My Hands This birthing emotional spectrum from stardust to deep earth to seed to trunk to treethe heavy pressing into pagesoh the holding of Time – inked A book the galaxy of its giving its open-hearted takingthe glorious exchange between writer & readerthe tongue the ear the sounds of life delivered the feasting… Continue reading Poem 93 – Book In My Hands
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Poem 86 – Leave the Mess
Leave the Mess leaving the mess insideto plant Forget-Me-Nots & Nasturtiumin pots to hang hooks & flagpolesone big blue star a sign that reads: This Is Our Happy Place later I’ll smell the sun in my skinits dusty comfortthe dirt under my nailswill sing the song of earth settling in the mess inside will waitgathering… Continue reading Poem 86 – Leave the Mess
Poem 81 – That Feeling When You Did It
That feeling when YOU.DID.IT! when the notes in your blood sing a symphony of synergywhen the muscles in your heart tighten & expand jello-ingthe walls of the chambers of your love & you shudder & crybut you’ve never felt more alivewhen your voice is a forest of redwood conviction & confidenceeven as doubt & worry… Continue reading Poem 81 – That Feeling When You Did It
Poem 75 – Etymology of Dead Line
Etymology of Dead Line curiosity about the etymologyof the word deadline leads meto a black & white photodated August 1864 of theBurial Detail at AndersonvilleConfederate Prison for Soldiers ‘dead line’ the space betweenlife & death the confluenceof the River Breath & the RiverNo Breath – a rough passage around the prison this line sofrightfully dug… Continue reading Poem 75 – Etymology of Dead Line
VANESSA SHIELDS 