About Vanessa |
In the daytime, Vanessa serves low income families as a Home Visitor for Northcoast Children's Services. At night, she attends graduate school pursuing her MA in Sociology. She plans on directing a non profit serving people that have suffered from the cycle of incarceration and need support reintegrating back into the community. Vanessa continuously uses her poetry as a tool to promote social activism, but also to remind herself and others how truly precious life. She is currently creating a full length traveling performance that will reach across the country, growing a community garden filled with more love than her two hands can hold, and finishing her sixth chapbook.
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Sample work
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The Hunger
There is something about the way you left me cracked open the contents of my chest exposed like the heart of a sacred book dog eared and swollen from being read too many times the thunder clap still in my bedroom window a streak of shoe polish down my face sheets greased from days of disappearance you uttered my song subaqueous in your throat read it like the Sunday’s funny pages to your friends you drew bridges from the base line of my soul and I caught you speaking of our future and as if all at once worship crumbled love clouds were left heavy with convulsion in the deepest fever sweats of summer you bent me over a picnic table had me believe in you even though you knew we were nearing our end and in in your thrusting I fell from the sky side split in purple lighting my body was something you conquered yet still a place you promised you would not visit again |