Category: Family

• 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

• Remembrance day

  I remember that day when we saw you for the last time and you gasped for breath

  Jenifer

  April 26, 2014

  Aging, Dying, Family, Love

  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

• Listen

  There are always linens to fold here, and sweeping, and the sand never really pulls up from the carpet. The new owners hung curtains

  Jenifer

  April 21, 2014

  Childhood, Family, My family, Nature, Pentwater, Yeats

  NaPoWriMo, poetry

• Inheritance

  Do tulips still grow in the back by the swings? Last I saw, their clumps had expanded

  Jenifer

  April 20, 2014

  Family, Garden, Haiku, My family, Nature, Pentwater

  NaPoWriMo, poetry

• As the ice is melting

  It is as I step forward with learned hesitation, crushing the edges of the ice

  Jenifer

  April 19, 2014

  Childhood, Family, My family, Poem sampler

  NaPoWriMo, poetry