Category: Love

• I say, tilting my head

  ,” I say, tilting my head adjusting my earring, you holding my coat and scarf as if you are my servant, laughing with eased waists, as if we are sisters. At the front desk, you say, “go figure,” shrugging, I nod, pay, tip, sun streaming, warming everything it lights, you disappear into the back office,…

  Jenifer

  November 9, 2014

  Family, Friendship, Love, Work life

  poetry

• My window at night, viii

  Mostly afraid the rain will stop, spattering on pavement and irregular bricks, wind flourishing through wet leaves, taking its time, coming in time, hollow pounding on garbage cans. I hang on random drips echoing in corners of the side yard, longing for its everlasting.

  Jenifer

  October 4, 2014

  Aging, Childhood, Dying, Love, Meditation, Muse, My window at night, Nature, Seasons

  poetry

• Daily practice

  My muscles tear for you, infinitely small and subtle, healing and tearing again. In time, I am bent to fit you, my edges sanding down, curves softening, wrapping through yours, less opposite, more flexible, able to twist with your twistings, sigh with your sighs, wonder with your wonderings — a multitudinous one. I dissolve, I…

  Jenifer

  September 21, 2014

  Bite-sized sampler, Family, Love, Meditation, Muse, Yoga

  poetry

• Loving the storms that sway her

  I could have never known it was a flame burning in that child’s heart;

  Jenifer

  July 26, 2014

  Childhood, Dying, Love, Memory, Poem sampler

  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

• A notion

  I tilt recklessly through the day, buffered by your tender forgivings.

  Jenifer

  May 17, 2014

  Family, Love, Meditation, Work life, Yoga

  poetry, tanka