Category: Poem sampler

• Jackson Heights, 1982

  i It is time to write to you, I realize looking up from a book as my husband tells me we are running late. But you are long gone, familiarly gone. Is it a defense mechanism to say that we never should have been friends, me with my Cloisters and flannel pjs, you with your…

  Jenifer

  January 6, 2015

  Aging, Chicago, Dying, Friendship, Memory, Poem sampler

  poetry

• Another poem about a rose

  It hangs there still in the cold December air having bloomed late, and now unable to set seed. I had thought it a thing of hope when it first bloomed, white, stubborn. The dog does not follow me downstairs at this hour, her joints sore, orientation off. Alone in the gray night, uncertain in the…

  Jenifer

  December 8, 2014

  Aging, Dying, Garden, Nature, Poem sampler, Seasons

  poetry

• Holding still

  My gift to you is that I stand still, regardless of how the world flips and turns, regardless of how rapidly the marbles slide from this side to that. I am here, in this chair, in this room, unmoved. My gift to you is that I am your mirror and the farther you pull away…

  Jenifer

  September 25, 2014

  Art, Hannah Arendt, Meditation, Poem sampler, Public, 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

• Geraniums

  It begins with the scent of geraniums, bitter and hard,

  Jenifer

  June 1, 2014

  Aging, Childhood, Dying, Family, Garden, Memory, Poem sampler, Seasons

  poetry

• Seven things I know about happiness

  First, that it is like a wave … that rolls across you standing there and lifts you just a bit, …

  Jenifer

  May 24, 2014

  Meditation, Nature, Pentwater, Poem sampler, Yoga

  poetry