Category: Childhood

• Girl with father in emergency room, 1983

  This is the dance we made together, when justice broke open on our laps. How we spun that night — me shifting, you spilling, our learning together that wild-beating fear — boiled as one into a speck, set to carve our way through years, to now, and on. As the stars rise through the night,…

  Jenifer

  March 15, 2016

  Childhood, Disability, Grief, Memory, Violence, Work life

  poetry

• Madonna child

  you are a hard one staring off as you do gentle eyes throwing pity to every hidden thing hairless head revealing each crease of question brother true arm wrapped as to claim, she is mine, death will not touch and if it should try I go first fending the blizzard whole oh, you are a…

  Jenifer

  December 17, 2015

  Childhood, Cro-Magnon, Disability, Dying, Love, Muse, Poem sampler, Work life

  poetry

• Our time

  through the fuzzy ultrasound screen it was your chin I noticed first fading in and out, scanning to your cheekbones, eye sockets, my heart belongs to you, for all it is worth, right then, ever and no matter as I push through the door now it is your chin I notice first lifted up high,…

  Jenifer

  December 11, 2015

  Disability, Dying, Family, Love, Memory, Poem sampler, Teenager, Work life

  poem

• 8/21

  hand twirls me in the dark, propels me to dance — forever forward, ever from nowhere

  Jenifer

  August 22, 2015

  Childhood, Family, Memory, Muse, Tanka

  poem

• 7/7

  sails bend across the lake winds turning, twisting to oblivion ant carries sand dodging foaming surf

  Jenifer

  July 8, 2015

  Childhood, Nature, Nested tanka, Pentwater, Seasons

  poetry

• Unborn child

  My first lie was before you were conceived and I prayed that if you were a girl, you must have Jeff’s hair, because all my years as a little girl I had dreamt of having just that hair, waving soft back and forth, all the time knowing God does not take a grocery list he…

  Jenifer

  June 19, 2015

  Aging, Childhood, Death, Family, Love, Memory

  poetry