Category: Family

• It comes down to potatoes

  It is as I come down this morning and remember having tried to put away five pounds of Idaho potatoes the other night to find you had stashed twenty pounds of sweet potatoes where I store potatoes and onions even though we never eat them and then having left my potatoes out because there was…

  Jenifer

  March 19, 2016

  Family, Humor, Story, Traveling, Visitors

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Day 29

  of all the angels who wandered and waited or not who landed before me here, there, what brings you to face me now? unwitting teacher player of basketball transient night flier, subtle questioner, what have you revealed of me?

  Jenifer

  April 29, 2015

  Childhood, Family, Friendship, Love, Meditation, Muse

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka