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
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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
POEM A DAY – March 1
March!! We made it! Another Photo Taped to the Computer Screen There’s a polaroid I’ve taped to the corner of the computer screen.I’m in it. A different me. Younger, thinner, a different kind of happier.She wears funky glasses and her head is shaved to a soft fluff, thegrays like a subtle halo. She looks boldly… Continue reading POEM A DAY – March 1
VANESSA SHIELDS 