a loss...

Nichole Shields

1969-2009

*

Good poet, good friend.


~

American Hunger


American hunger
would not occur
if not every
but most untruths,
malicious acts,
and un-kept promises
could be consumed

each falsetto
an appetizing morsel
fattening the nation

tipping the scale


          - Shield's work was featured in Blue Fifth Review, Winter 2001