Category: My family

• 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

• To my Aunt Cathy

  It was as we played king of the raft — bobbing the way it did, always half-swamped with the translucent green of the little lake, and all of us shouting, thrashing, sending the fish to the bottom, the sun shining our suits, our shoulders and necks matted with tangled hair, you watching from shore with…

  Jenifer

  September 13, 2014

  Aging, Childhood, Dying, Family, Memory, My family

  poetry

• Top of the White Trail

  The first sense you have is of the isolation and how disorienting it feels to not see anyone, even a stranger.

  Jenifer

  August 29, 2014

  Aging, Childhood, Meditation, Memory, My family, Nature, Pentwater, Seasons

  poetry

• Haunted

  I had thought it was God who visited me that night, or the devil, but perhaps it was just you,

  Jenifer

  July 11, 2014

  Childhood, Family, Memory, My family

  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

• 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