Friends! Gah. And so, after 231 poems in a row, life got too busy, my exhaustion took the lead, and I let it. On Friday, August 21, I was on the film set for thirteen hours and when I got home, I couldn't do anything but eat, rest then sleep! Then, yesterday, I drove to… Continue reading THREE-POEM CATCH-UP!
Tag: We the Mourners
POEM A DAY – August 12 & Goderich & More
Today, it’s like this my soul piece is a new moonI can’t see it but it’s thereglorious, abundant in space & shape& I (what I mean is: my body) amtethered to it, like a string to a balloonor kite, yes, let’s go with kitea kite moon, & it’s moving rapidlyacross the soggy-grey sky & I’mstrungout,… Continue reading POEM A DAY – August 12 & Goderich & More
POEM A DAY – August 6 & HEART TOUR IN GODERICH & MORE!
Maps I she says, I love maps!& my body becomes landscapehair follicles rising to mountain rangetufts of hair forest forearms& as she guides me into my gutsI walk them like red caves in sedonamy palm caressing the eroded wallsyears of worry ridging pocketsfear-shucked alcoves bumpyunder my feet, yet I carry atorch. shine light on texturesof… Continue reading POEM A DAY – August 6 & HEART TOUR IN GODERICH & MORE!
VANESSA SHIELDS 