THIMBLES: POETRY BY VANESSA SHIELDS

My friend, poet Eva Tihanyi launched her new collection, Circle Tour, in St. Catharines today. she invited Windsor poet Vanessa Shields to read some of her poetry. She read from Thimbles, which chronicles the life of her Nonna, Maria, from her origins as a seamstress in Italy to her eventual death from dementia. She was crying while she read, I was too.