Today I Wear A Neon Yellow Shirt …because I like the brilliance it emits because it’s inspiration for my thoughts because when I washed my hands in the Burger King bathroom the soap smelled like the daycare I attended when I was two and three and I closed my eyes an inhaled deeply nostalgia tugging… Continue reading POEM A DAY – June 24
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POEM A DAY – April 25
In St. Joachim today...mini-writing retreat...ooo, yeah. Writers In A Mansion With A Lakeview Brown lake water toils, wind-whacked.The lake lakes as the writers write. Poets and fiction writers god-ing.The tap-tap of fingertips on laptop keyboards nestles into the central air pushing intomassive rooms with high ceilings, wood-beamed. There’s enough coffee and confections to fuelthousands of… Continue reading POEM A DAY – April 25
POEM A DAY – April 18
Yellow Fish I have one of those standing fish vases mouth agape, awaiting waterbefore it glug, glug, glugs in joyoussonority after I fill it, pour. It is yellow. It waits beside the blue flower pothoming a lush fern. Yesterday, afterthe panicked rush to the vetafter stuffing my face with freshpita and garlic, after making a nutella cookie sandwich,… Continue reading POEM A DAY – April 18
VANESSA SHIELDS 