Showing posts with label Homecoming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Homecoming. Show all posts

Friday, June 14, 2024

Where Had We Been All Our Lives

 

Photo © 2024 Jennifer Wagner

 

Before the key did its magic,

 

it was like

we were only breathing,

 

nothing more.

 

Two-dimensional

sleeping

 

inside a dream.

 

Blank space

 

until the kiss

of home

 

opened the door.

 

 

© 2024 Jennifer Wagner

 

 

The Word Garden Word List

 

I was also inspired by dVerse:  Poetry in Liminal Spaces, but I’m too late for the link.

 

Photo:  a wall someplace in Arizona.

 

Tuesday, April 2, 2024

Natia

Photo © 2024 Jennifer Wagner


 

It was obvious

why she’d chosen the Marietta Diner,

in retrospect.

 

Spacecraft-esque and in Georgia.

 

She spilled a Coke

meant for someone else’s table

when she placed

a Cobb salad in front of me,

 

shaken by a few Russians discussing

the cosmonauts in a cloud of smoke nearby.

 

That’s when we’d recognized her

from a grainy photograph on the History Channel.

And of course, she’d had a different name.

 

Soon after, she’d been replaced

and we were told she’d taken ill.

 

But as we walked toward our Chevy,

there she was

crouching down behind it,

bumming a ride.

 

If someone is brave enough

to wear a red leather jumpsuit

and they ask for your help,

you know they need it.

 

So, we dropped her “anywhere,”

as requested.

She blew us a kiss,

and one toward the east,

 

then strode high, helmet in hand,

toward Narikala

and, we hoped, 

home.

 

 

© 2024 Jennifer Wagner

 

For Shay’s Word Garden Word List

 

Since I recently returned from a trip to Georgia (state not country) and watched (tripped-out over) Season 1 of Constellation, this is what the muse gave.

 

National Poetry Month: Day 2