Letting It Be Jealousy is thieving my joy This asserting blue-sky morningMaybe it’s because I went to bed so lateMaybe it’s because I looked at instagram too early She weeps for a year of being viralThis one gets a longlistThat one is a teen and already an alumna Of the workshop my old body yearns for I’m… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 14
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POEM A DAY – May 13
There was the time when I plead guilty the police officer had ticketed me for a ‘rolling stop’which I did not do, but he’d said, ‘I’m sorry. Gotta hit my quota’ as he ripped the ticket, passed it through my open window.he’d said, ‘Go to court and fight it. Use one of the lawyers there.… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 13
POEM A DAY – May 11
Found another rejected piece...did another little edit. Happy Monday! Call It it’s nearly ten & she’s still working. relativity is pain’s dialect. when resilience slips in, she exhales an eight count & then the dizzying inhalation like a thick black hair on the chin of her day that she can’t feel growing & she knows… Continue reading POEM A DAY – May 11
VANESSA SHIELDS 