Author Archives: Ronald E. Shields
Industrial Monday
Over at along the interstice it is a day for Something Industrial. In that spirit I have been moved to look for …
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
I once tried to emulate this poem with one of my own about the desert. Thirteen Ways of Looking at …
Something Industrial
something industrial
The Poet Game
A Lover’s Quarrel With the World
Think of the world as poetic in itself. Nothing needs be added by me to turn the flowers into ferocious …
Second Thoughts
The room is white. A single vanity light hovers over the mirror. Her hennaed hand caresses the blue jewel, drops …
Olive Branches
Scott McMillan three years old, he is the child who scribbles outside the lines on one day, killed by his …
Inertia
Something was needed a weight bearing substance, strong backs. Only children answered the call. Only children stepped forward. Only children …
Poetry on the run 