Category: Work life

• Day 28

  alike from afar but endlessly varied stitches line the edges of all we touch of our made being

  Jenifer

  April 28, 2015

  Ancient, Art, Meditation, Nature, Work life

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Day 23

  nun-like with quiet precision you yield, fold laundry, tidy rooms, teach children to read

  Jenifer

  April 23, 2015

  Aging, Family, Meditation, Work life

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Reserve time

  Reserve time for poetry in April, for when the days get longer, we turn out after our deep hermitage, rushing too fast to learn from the budding world. Reserve time for poetry in July when the hammering sun tempts you to spend your best hours dozing, as the herons skim the river. Reserve time for…

  Jenifer

  April 19, 2015

  Art, Childhood, Family, Graduation, Meditation, Muse, Nature, Work life, Yoga

  NaPoWriMo, poetry

• 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 12

  neglecting email, shuffling files on the desk unsettled clawing verses, begrudging time

  Jenifer

  April 12, 2015

  Art, Meditation, Muse, Work life

  NaPoWriMo, poetry, tanka

• Quiet hour

  Whisper with me, deflate joy, let its steam exhale. Take cover with me from babbling, tumbling squall. Escape now with me to a solitary inch of grassy earth. Lay here with me, our breath smooth, civil, disobedient. Ponder with me leaf shadow pressing on black wall, swaying in street light, silence holding. Tame with me…

  Jenifer

  February 24, 2015

  Chicago, Love, Meditation, Work life, Yoga

  poetry