Showing posts with label Passion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Passion. Show all posts

Monday, July 7, 2025

confession

 

near the greenhouse

the hive was being smoked

 

soothing the bees

gorging themselves on honey

 

the garden pale as a powdered queen

in waning light

 

eve’s darkness growing

like ivy across the fence

 

the teeth of humidity bearing down

on us like childbirth

 

turning, i remember saying,

i don’t wear blue much, but—

 

noticing your sea-filled eyes

decided i could

 

just this once

 

 

© 2025 jennifer wagner

 

shay’s word garden word list

 

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