I want to tell you I want to tell you, it’s gonna be okay. I know you need to hear these words. I know you don’t believe them, most of the time. I know you let them fall to your feet into a puddle of muddy weather leftovers you avoid. Did you know you used… Continue reading Poem 287 – I want to tell you
Tag: Yin Writing
Poem 286 Grand Central Stomach – & This Week’s Many Literary Events!
Grand Central Stomach my stomach is grand central stationtrains of worry or elation or exhaustion or fear or joyzipping in & out – steam screaming up into my lung ceilingfuel dripping deep into my gutty rail lines loco - motion of today’s to-dos & the conductor is on breakstepped onto cloud nine on the last… Continue reading Poem 286 Grand Central Stomach – & This Week’s Many Literary Events!
Poem 278 – In the Shower
In the Shower “…you can’t dance and stay uptight…” Dancing in the Moonlight, King Harvest We try to dance & stay uptight butit is impossiblehips tockingarms wailingparts flipping & floppingilluminated by a long-agopenned lyric our naked bodiesage to the beats of google-summoned music Facebook & instagram disappear into the ether of our lovewe laugh, oh… Continue reading Poem 278 – In the Shower
VANESSA SHIELDS 