Category: Childhood

• Prom night

  Corsage scratches wrist; shoes pinch little toes; fingers clenched; dizzying

  Jenifer

  May 22, 2014

  Childhood, Family, Teenager

  poetry, tanka

• Wake

  When I look out over the empty lake at dusk, and see the overturned sailboats lining the shore, and the day feels full and tired,

  Jenifer

  May 5, 2014

  Childhood, My family, Nature, Seasons, Traveling

  poetry

• Sailing

  I sail in my tiny boat, skimming across the water, gleaming in the sunshine,

  Jenifer

  May 3, 2014

  Childhood, Meditation, My family, Nature, Pentwater, Yoga

  poetry, sailing

• Stay

  There is a deer grazing in our woods behind the bunkhouse,

  Jenifer

  April 30, 2014

  Aging, Childhood, Family, My family, Nature

  NaPoWriMo, poetry

• Swim teacher

  It is when I reflect on you that I see myself most clearly, bobbing in the pool on one foot,

  Jenifer

  April 28, 2014

  Childhood, Family, Meditation, Yoga

  NaPoWriMo, poetry

• Haircut night

  The fragments of your hair, having shifted pigment and mixtures of pigments to now solid gray,

  Jenifer

  April 23, 2014

  Aging, Bite-sized sampler, Childhood, Family, My family

  NaPoWriMo, poetry