Category: Love

• Solstice

  weep not that the world changes in all of your wanderings; open to the oblivion that softly wipes away the stain of yesterday open still to the shifting of love, to pleasure short-lived, inconstant, to the welcome morning with its rays of kindness and bitter clarity open again to a thrill of hope, young limbs…

  Jenifer

  December 21, 2015

  Aging, Dying, Garden, Love, Memory, Nature, Seasons

  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

• 11/7

  slow ticking of the fan overhead brings back the rain that day how it poured down on us

  Jenifer

  November 8, 2015

  Bite-sized sampler, Love, Muse, My window at night, Seasons, Tanka

  poem

• My window at night ix

  no sound fuller than the wind tossing leaves up and over and against our window screen as we lie here, breeze smoothing our shoulders retreating, surrendering at long last

  Jenifer

  October 7, 2015

  Fantasy, Love, Meditation, Memory, Muse, My window at night, Nature, Seasons

  poetry

• A piece at a time

  Splintering the absolute into small, uneven shards I can hold, set down, recall, be haunted by; mismatching its pieces, mistaking one for the other, a few for the whole, obscured at every try.

  Jenifer

  July 2, 2015

  Art, Dying, Love, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Yoga

  poetry