Category: Aging

• Closing fire

  Day closes in wandering chatter losing itself in waves edging our pebbled shore; stones skitter over the surface, lead trails to the horizon — fading circles on yellow water

  Jenifer

  June 10, 2015

  Aging, Childhood, Dying, Family, Friendship, Memory, Pentwater

  poetry

• A prayer

  I approach thee in thy round heaven brown, incarnate — your glow soft, flickering as my eyes close to forget you are near always and ever hiding in darkness, in view only when sleep comes to rescue me as a lingering taste on my back palate as a lingering shadow in the descendant fog —…

  Jenifer

  May 24, 2015

  Aging, Dying, Grand tanka, Meditation, Muse, Tanka, Yoga

  poetry

• I 57

  What is it about rows of corn stubs flipping past, electrical wires sagging in sync with the tracks, whistle beaming out to snow-flat fields, clumps of houses, trees so far away you think of desert, that pulls me back to dream-like chatter, long nights on empty roads? We meet again in this rhythmic void, away…

  Jenifer

  April 24, 2015

  Aging, Bite-sized sampler, Chicago, Family, Friendship, Illinois, Love, Meditation, Memory, Muse, Nature, Seasons

  NaPoWriMo, poetry

• Day 23

  nun-like with quiet precision you yield, fold laundry, tidy rooms, teach children to read

  Jenifer

  April 23, 2015

  Aging, Family, Meditation, Work life

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 22

  starry white droplets line tree branches, fragile, falling, constellations, signs, against March’s gray realm

  Jenifer

  April 22, 2015

  Aging, Art, Garden, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Seasons

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 20

  sawing away branches that died over winter unnoticed until others blossomed out

  Jenifer

  April 20, 2015

  Aging, Dying, Garden, Meditation, Memory, Nature

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka