Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts

Thursday, July 10, 2025

glow


 

there’s something about

glow that feels just right,

as if i’m hovering, too,

weightless and flickering like flame

 

candles, swaying lights,

an inviting courtyard,

all say rest to me

 

when the skies are soft

in their pajamas of pale blue

and smell like the book you just put down bedside,

removing your reading glasses

 

when shadows are just way markers

ushering me into warm spaces

adjusting my view light-ward

into the fold of your arms

 

and the post-ache glow of eden

where we’re stitched

into one another’s sides

 

the smooth fire of sunset behind us

resting on my shoulders

like the kiss of your palm

 

  

© 2025 jennifer wagner

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photo © jennifer wagner


Monday, June 2, 2025

unforgotten stairway

 


where you last swept me

off my feet

 

your breath

fanning me tender, fanning me light

 

drowsy as my fingers linger

tracing your smile

 

the throb of promise

at sunrise

 

on the rose of my lips

holds memory of the curve of your kiss

 

 

© 2025 jennifer wagner

 

 

dverse quadrille: a poem of precisely 44 words including the word “sunrise”

tlaquepaque stairway photo © 2025 jennifer wagner

 


Wednesday, May 28, 2025

taliesin, west


where the ocotillos rise

and the desert breeze

winds around the branches,

 

where the honey-essenced mesquites

perfume the sand

licked up

in the sonoran drift,

 

i sway here, too—

waiting for you,

twisting just a half smile

until you come,

 

your hair smelling like pine,

and mine

like shadows

coming out into the sun

 

 

© 2025 jennifer wagner

photo (me) © 2025 ian wagner