What Happens When I Buy A Journal For My New Poetry They’re in me nowSmart Kempe Plath EchlinFour storms of weathering behind my kneecaps – shyBut curious, changing my gaitThey do thatExtraordinary womenDive inside meOlympians of wordsI’m a country they take overSoon we will all be biting goldRevelling in each other’s linguistic personal bests
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Poem 67 – Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuit Artist
HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY! Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuit Artist her art is alive dancing on the edges of every blink & focustethering sight to the soul & yanking – kindly she transfers the land & animalsthe above & the below the centre & the deepinto the matrix holding images carved & colouredin perfect pressure harmony… Continue reading Poem 67 – Kenojuak Ashevak, Inuit Artist
On Marching…
Please note: There is coarse language in this blog. I am one flavour in a Sandstorm of taste Spices sparkle on the Orange lips of dawn and Drip down the chin of dusk I’ve been thinking a lot about marching. About being a woman. About being a mother. About being a human. I’m always thinking… Continue reading On Marching…
VANESSA SHIELDS, writer 