Yes, it is trueInspired by Doris Lessing’s The Summer Before the Dark that as the woman stood in her kitchentossing roasted nuts in twos into her mouthchewing, tasting, hungry for meatshe regarded the treetops in the neighbour’syard and discovered that part of her was therehovering a few inches above a ground shecouldn’t see, feeling differently… Continue reading POEM A DAY – August 14
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POEM A DAY – July 30
this sacred unmaking knowing that there are limited moons left to pass through my womb, knowing there are limited lives gripping my ovaries, knowing there are limited deep-dark streaks on my underpants, knowing there are limited cottons to soak my mean reds, knowing that the sacred unmaking of this body from maker to mother to… Continue reading POEM A DAY – July 30
POEM A DAY – June 20
*CONTENT WARNING - There are curse words in this poem* Chicane - Again So I’m in the shower and my brain is going as it does in the shower thinking and thinking and thinking and thinking about singing but I don’t have the music on and thinking about turning 50 and what I will sing… Continue reading POEM A DAY – June 20
VANESSA SHIELDS 