Poet Laundry

Poetry by Jennifer Wagner. From grit to sparkle.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Abuse of Power, Power of Abuse

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Leave me to solve riddles, in the dark ruminations puzzling with pieces slipping through my fingers. They have long legs and...
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Thursday, August 23, 2012

75

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I see them most every week when I’m driving. The little man with his little wife going for their afternoon stroll on the s...
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Laughing Hills

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Hills in August rise frozen against the setting sun a glass of chardonnay perspiring at the table of summers she doesn’t ...
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Friday, August 17, 2012

Composing

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through table legs painted toenails coquet the edge of denim lemon, sea salt and baby arugula eaten with fingertips ca...
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012

The Judging Game

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watching them with her orange eyes looking through their glass house she opens the window for fresh air            her clipped ...
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Sunday, August 12, 2012

Quenched

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Stepping with bare toes across meadows of balsamroot I glide swiftly on grasses soft from last night’s rain. Quietly slipping bet...
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Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Tide Pools

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basalt, discordant and black, scattered the hillside of late warmth, a cadaver benumbed of cherishment. defeated, we wondered ...
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Friday, August 3, 2012

Chelan Haiku

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sunrise on the vineyard the bees smell sweet blue dragonflies tango above the lake in sea green white birch night th...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

Paper Dolls, 1950’s Single Mother

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butter she mixed with sugar and fed to us on saltine crackers we washed it down with powdered milk we were poor we were r...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Noonday Jackals

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Her thoughts took a dark turn like jackals in the threadbare sun ripping, ripping until she couldn’t see herself, now a carcass of o...
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Wife. Mom. Poems. Orange blossoms. Cacti. Palm trees. I believe you are a blessing and have a story worth hearing.
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