Easter Poem

of all the blueprints

and maps,

locations marked with a jagged cross,

i like the one where we intersected best

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

I celebrate Easter and if you do too, I hope you have a happy one!

To Thine Own

Public domain image

Like a rebel’s note

come Sunday

I chanted my mal arranged vow,

as expected of a good girl like me.

But I had to sing true

in my Salishan earthed heart, vesicles bursting,

knowing it would thrive again

if for now, manacled, 3 quarters dead,

to some other maid’s dream.

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

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Poem of the Week

Thank you Sherry of Poets United for spotlighting my poem There Go I, Dancing Broken as poem of the week for your site.  It is an honor to have my piece be chosen and an honor to be a part of this community of talented poets!

Westport Beach

cherry blossoms and butterflies

get stuck in my throat

today, and every time,

a just right spring blows

the salt wind and dark wave

against my memory

and across my bare toes

to unbury thoughts of pebbles and sand

and running and laughing

and six year old you

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

For Andrew.  On a day like today.

Sugar

Street Posts, Seattle, WA.  Image © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

 

 

when your spindles turned

to char-

coal,

you wiped your eye-

lashes

and turned your hair crimson, cocoa,

blonde, black

melting in the freeze;

you, a candy in the dish,

purple and licked,

true confections on the tip

of your tongue

giving kisses

cold-

er than

they’ve draw you

in the lines

of your cheekbones

and jaw-

dropping curves

the ones

 no one keeps

past

yesterday

but still

you try to be, to do

everything they want

turning bucks

and, when honest, at your heart,

feel something

you’ve heard

is akin to love

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner