Category: Family

• Sort of a lamentation

  The bottom line is that you should be afraid of poetry, coming as it does when you least expect it and asking so much, as if it knows you well enough to do that.

  Jenifer

  July 6, 2014

  Aging, Dying, Family, Humor, Memory

  poetry

• A few haiku on having and not having

  i. The cup I hold is three quarters full;

  Jenifer

  June 28, 2014

  Family, Haiku, Humor, Meditation, Memory, Seasons, Yoga

  haiku, poetry

• She struts

  She struts ahead of me, the hem of her black dress with bunches of pink flowers

  Jenifer

  June 24, 2014

  Aging, Family, My family

  poetry

• End of season

  It is as I notice the half-used garlic bulb on the window sill, papers torn and frayed,

  Jenifer

  June 22, 2014

  Aging, Childhood, Family, Nature, Pentwater, Seasons, Traveling

  poetry

• Thoughts on visiting my grandfather’s grave

  Up where the invisible line draws from this stone to that imagined field,

  Jenifer

  June 10, 2014

  Dying, Family, Love, Memory, My family

  poetry

• The boy stands

  The boy stands and bounces, holding the edge of the sofa, humming sloppy raspberries,

  Jenifer

  June 7, 2014

  Aging, Childhood, Family, Teenager

  poetry