Another Poem About Writing Letters the page is patient ink is intuitive kind words swarm a cluster of giving in your mind & heart the words are also patient I carry around her letterit jumps in the corners of my sightimprints on bag detritus seeps into nowswhile I finish other things a letter waits to… Continue reading Poem 262 – Another Poem About Writing Letters
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Poem 261 – Didn’t All Day
Didn’t all day didn’t open the laptop all daychose the garage & the shedlifted bins & swept steps peeled & mashed potatoesdrowned everything in gravy saw the harvest moon so large & luscious in the skyit frightened me took my breath away & tucked it in a passing wind now I reach for it let… Continue reading Poem 261 – Didn’t All Day
Poem 219 – Twenty-Seven-Page Journal Entry
Twenty-Seven-Page Journal Entry The mother of all journalsA mother writes in a journalJournals listen to mothersListening to mothers write is symphonicMothers sing a symphony of release when writing in journals
VANESSA SHIELDS 