Today's poem is inspired by a line in a poem I received in my inbox from Poets.org. Thank you, Leila and the Poets.org family! Don’t mind the sea at the doorFrom Leila Chatti’s ‘The World Is Too Much With Us’ It’s still night-thick dark when I open the back door.‘Go pee,’ I cue. The dog… Continue reading POEM A DAY – March 11
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POEM A DAY – March 9
Tests mammogram this afternoon followed by an ultrasound followed by worry followed by lookatthesun followed by dropping off taxes followed by meeting with the printer followed by editing followed by worry followed by reading followed by tea followed by driving followed by trust followed by mybodyishealthyandstrong followed by spring air followed by dinner followed by… Continue reading POEM A DAY – March 9
POEM A DAY – March 5
Tonka Truck I saved up my allowance(wrinkled grey and white onescrisp pink and red twos…wishing fora brisk blue five) and yearned forgarage-sale saturdays, for usednovels, torn-cornered and spinecrusted, for Barbie clothes and singleplastic white heels with the toesteeth-marked, for marbles and micro-machines, for slinkies and stickers:I wasn’t looking for the truck. Bright yellow metal, as… Continue reading POEM A DAY – March 5
POEM A DAY – March 2
“…that harsh and strangled sound…”From Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer’s After I wish that wars we wage are eternally internalthat the bombs we drop are chakra bound that thebullets we shoot are philosophy loaded thatour harsh struggles are the wrangling of valuesnegotiating love’s forces…that the strangled soundsof pain are proof that when we love ourselves whenwe harness… Continue reading POEM A DAY – March 2
VANESSA SHIELDS 