by Shannon Turner | May 20, 2019 | Blog
Picture it. A Wednesday evening, a Saturday morning. A community pool at the local YMCA. The women gather, picking out their foam water-resistance weights, placing them on the side of the pool, and then gingerly entering into the water with squeals and groans. The...
by Shannon Turner | May 14, 2019 | Blog, empathy, life maps, vulnerability, workshops
Young African Leaders Initiative – Georgia State University – July 2018 ...
by Shannon Turner | May 12, 2019 | Blog, vulnerability, walks with grief
Dear Kids, I was 14. Bored in biology class, I started making lists of the names of my children. Just like the book I’d been reading, Flowers in the Attic, I would have a girl, and then a boy, and then a set of fraternal twins. Their names would be Catherine,...
by Shannon Turner | Apr 30, 2019 | Blog, national poetry month, poetry
yet another daywastedbest intentionsslipped out through the endsof my fingersthe floor is cleanand the clothes put awaybut thoughts &aspirationsgo floating out through the etheras I lay herewaiting for the spirit to movefor the light to pierce through my eyelids I...
by Shannon Turner | Apr 30, 2019 | Blog, national poetry month, poetry
my ghosts are tissuesand slips of papertucked into bookshalf-readundigestedlike a mealI was too fullto finishThe morselsrotting, dustyon shelveswaiting for meto returnMy ghostsare waitingfor meto return Shannon M. Turnerpreviously unpublishedunknown time written ~...
by Shannon Turner | Apr 26, 2019 | Blog, national poetry month, poetry
Rain fallson a Sunday afternoonin springCars splash puddlesplaying like childrenin rubber bootsThe rat-a-tatdroplets on myskylight cause me to pull a light blankettighter around my feetAs the clouds squeeze out all their tearsI feel into pain, long-suppressedoverdue...
