Category: Childhood

• 9/3

  to be lost for this ever, to drink the moon when no one is looking, to return washed clean

  Jenifer

  September 4, 2016

  Ancient, Childhood, Garden, Love, Muse, Nature

  poetry

• 6/24

  we lay here in our pod the world screams crazy past you ask, ‘What is the world?’

  Jenifer

  June 25, 2016

  Art, Bite-sized sampler, Childhood, Dying, Grief, Love, Mother, Muse, Yoga

  poem, poetry

• The gods, the gods, how they love to hide behind a veil

  I am not afraid of miracles, though all of my angry doubts must make you think so. I long for them, fragile as they are, and coax them with the gentlest flame. Last night, as I waited for my patient to turn, a noise came from outside that could have only been an owl. As…

  Jenifer

  June 23, 2016

  Ancient, Cro-Magnon, Disability, Dying, Love, Memory, Story

  poem, poetry

• 6/19

  through this leafy tunnel, freed from the sun we stroll easy, trace silky air over our skin discover joy in darkness

  Jenifer

  June 22, 2016

  Childhood, Garden, Memory, Muse, Nature, Seasons

  poem, poetry

• Shade is beautiful wherever you find it

  Concrete squares lay out for miles, tar driveways melt, made endless by eager sun. Crisscross blocks, seek any shade. Detour through Paul’s dark garden path — relief of damp cool. Delay the last bright patch ’till dinner. Sprawl in the grass by Marbach’s on the tiny hill we made the center of the earth. Ponder…

  Jenifer

  June 4, 2016

  Childhood, Family, Garden, Nature, Seasons

  poetry

• Lantern on path

  Lantern swinging down path — I wonder if it is really there, if that is you, or just some accident of moonlight and wind. How is it possible for the night to be so black that no adjective makes sense? Just black-black, with shadows hovering and the wild phlox lopped over reflecting greywhite back up.…

  Jenifer

  April 2, 2016

  Childhood, Death, Grief, Muse, My family, Pentwater

  poetry