Category: Political struggle

• Clarity

  I cannot say it all started that night but that is when it became clear: dark, full, swelling wounds of inobvious origin bursting their seams, flying upon us all. This is not the thing we are meant for, not what we read in stories of educated ladies eating yogurt and bagels, drinking coffee in earnest…

  Jenifer

  February 10, 2016

  Death, Friendship, Grief, Memory, Political struggle, Violence, Work life

  poetry

• 11/29

  we long for peace it seems to surround us but perhaps it is only darkness falling with its uneven temper ——————— In response to Jennifer Knoblock’s plaintive poem, Winter.

  Jenifer

  November 29, 2015

  Meditation, Muse, Political struggle, Seasons, Tanka

  poetry

• It is what comes after

  Though in a world of doubt surrounded, our river plies, churns, hides its own error, misgiving, re-creation, courage of moment, witness borne, lost. Our hero beeches suffer demotion to floats, serve as fisheries, bubble up ripples, but if confrontation cannot be avoided, indeed, remains steadfast, they rise to bows, turns, diversions, reshaping even water, laying…

  Jenifer

  March 5, 2015

  Ancient, Nature, Political struggle, Public, Robert Frost

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