Shannon Wallace
Shannon Wallace is a Canadian artist and poet based in Ontario. She holds a BA in English and Art from the University of Toronto (2022). Her work has been exhibited internationally and across Canada, including at the University of Western Ontario, Visual Arts Mississauga, Joshua Creek Heritage Art Centre, Dignam Gallery, Northern Contemporary, Propeller Art Gallery, Gallery 1313, Back Alley Gallery, Part Crowd Art Gallery, Omnibus Gallery (Germany), the Kolaj Institute (USA), CICA Museum (South Korea), and The Wrong Biennale.She doesn’t like talking about her sexuality or chronic pain/mentality overtly. Her poetry has appeared in numerous anthologies, including Coming of Age in Florida, SHHH! Breathe Slow!, Ache: The Body’s Experience of Religion, Moonbeams and Marshmallow Dreams, Seashores: An International Journal to Share the Spirit of Haiku, and Whispers of the Seasons: A Contemporary Haiku Anthology. Her first standalone chapbook, Mossy Alley, was published in December 2025.
CHRONIC PAIN PRINCESSes
Your choice to interpret me
(a complete and utter stranger
to you, no matter what your
—- arrogant, minimizing of
my personal experience
view of collectivism —- ASS
prefers to believe)
in the meanest way,
is your choice.
It is your choice to
depersonalize me
so you can cling to survivorship bias.
Yeah —- If you sleep better thinking
you are too smart for bones to wear……..
BITE MY BRUXISM AWAY.
Dogpile your beliefs
onto the sickened,
I wait alone
in the hospital
named after violent manifestations
of patriarchal racketeering.
I wait a year for an appointment
and he shows up two hours late!
He offers to replace my
bone with metal
and gets uncomfortable
when I cry!
WHAT A BITCH OF A DICKHEAD DOCTOR.
Says a lot about you.
The You who chooses
to minimize what makes you
uncomfy, why did you ask no
questions when anti-depressants’
long term effects are only
tested on 100 women?
At least, in my country today.
At least I bite my fucking self,
eat teeth that plead for babylon
don’t need judgmental LOSERS
for some masochism.
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