Poet Laundry

Author Tania Runyan surprised me by requesting to include a poem of mine in her book How to Write a Poem .  This work is a compani...

He sat in front of me in third grade and turned and stuck his tongue out. His mom later told mine he had a crush on me. I did ...

On the shower wall this morning I saw a baby chick, mouth open. On the other, the curve of a question mark without the do...

Photo © 2015 Jennifer Wagner If smiles light up rooms, yours lights up a thousand rooms in my heart-dark-need for such a b...

He still goes over to his house, sits in his room, says a lifetime of goodbyes to ashes --what's left when the oxygen of h...

Prince and me, circa 1977 He was puffy and fluffy and rarely barked. I was in the car that ran over him the nigh...

This poem may not hold up to the elements, in fact it may float away with the cherry blossoms, bleed away with the swell of the...

a modern haiga for igwrt and haiku my heart happy international haiku poetry day!

He calls to say he'll be late: had a D.O.A. at shift change (paperwork still to be completed, tasks to be ...

Stretched out on the grass looking up at the stars, hands tucked behind their heads, feet crossed at the ankles, bellies full-- ...