I Burned My Tongue hot gravy oozing over meatscorched the centrenow it’s rough with tender pain sometimes hunger does that –brings a biting, hasty excitementscarring a song of sorenesson a body part for further harkening I roll my tongue under myfront teeth, try to lift the tantrummed tissuewill my speech be different today –smouldering in… Continue reading Poem 342 – I Burned My Tongue & YIN Link & Open House tonight!
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Poem 335 – Tell Each Other & Yin Writing
Tell Each Other The following things: If there’s a rice-looking snot in a nostril (or any shape of snot, actually)If there’s a dark chunk of food between teeth (or any coloured chunk of food, actually) If breathe is deathlyIf a bra shows throughIf ear wax is showingIf one smells like poo If you need an… Continue reading Poem 335 – Tell Each Other & Yin Writing
Poem 322 – Three Sakes
Three Sakes 1I could take you to the very place but I won’tit is thick here, heavy-curtained by blush insulationI pull my palms down them, needing the sensationof shard sharpness to burrow into my palmsprickling pain keeping me in my body 2This person – a veilthin, mildly see-throughw/ short skinny limbs like half-breathed thoughtsdishevelled hair… Continue reading Poem 322 – Three Sakes
VANESSA SHIELDS 