Category: Memory

• Day 20

  sawing away branches that died over winter unnoticed until others blossomed out

  Jenifer

  April 20, 2015

  Aging, Dying, Garden, Meditation, Memory, Nature

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 16

  today surged with nothings but that I reached to touch your hand as through a pane of glass warming, one on, one under

  Jenifer

  April 16, 2015

  Dying, Friendship, Love, Memory, Work life, Yoga

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 15

  unwinding myself from you memory thins-out, slipping from my lap as I drift off

  Jenifer

  April 15, 2015

  Aging, Dying, Family, Friendship, Love, Memory

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 1

  tree stands alone empty black branches yellow-gray field I am not afraid to come to you

  Jenifer

  April 1, 2015

  Death, Family, Memory, Nature, Seasons

  nopowrimo, poetry

• Childcraft, 1964 ed.

  loud, no books but encyclopedia, hiding behind end-table, drapes fidgeting, national geographics layered open alien religions, bangles elongating necks, circular cornfield in desert, white-clothed bedouin, tattered scrolls, peking man poems spread on top, stutters untwisting, hours unwrapping, “this is my rock and here I run to steal the secrets of the sun” ——————————————– A late…

  Jenifer

  March 27, 2015

  Childhood, Meditation, Memory, Muse, My family

  #dversepoets, poetry

• Jacksonville, Illinois

  i. Why do I think you are here with me still, taking note? I pull off the highway, end on a dirt road as usual. Strangers look long, out their way, as if destiny is known. I wish you were gone, really, truly gone, that that would sink deep in, become an organizing piece of…

  Jenifer

  March 21, 2015

  Chicago, Childhood, Death, Family, Friendship, Meditation, Memory, Nature

  poetry