Showing posts with label A Poem is Where You Find It. Show all posts
Showing posts with label A Poem is Where You Find It. Show all posts

Thursday, June 6, 2024

Riversong

Photo © 2024 Jennifer Wagner


 

From the watchtower

I saw them, wildflowers

drifting downstream.

 

I followed on foot, from loamy bank

to bank, and found you

in that neglected canoe

 

—you’d chased them, too,

with my heart,

a padlock you’d rescued

 

for pennies on the dollar,

and handed it back to me,

warm, and melting like wax.

 

I’d never been able

to find the key,

but you unlocked it

 

with a poem in Latin,

so haunted, so beautiful,

and unchained all my wildflower tears.

 

 

© 2024 Jennifer Wagner

 

 

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Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Dead Bees

 

Photo © 2023 Jennifer Wagner

All your belittlements

have fallen at my feet

 

like dead bees.

 

They stung

and left me mumbling incoherently,

stumbling toward water.

 

But, I’m still standing.

 

And they are now

what they always were:

fertilizer

 

for my next

most magnificent

bloom.

 

 

© 2023 Jennifer Wagner