Westport Beach

cherry blossoms and butterflies

get stuck in my throat

today, and every time,

a just right spring blows

the salt wind and dark wave

against my memory

and across my bare toes

to unbury thoughts of pebbles and sand

and running and laughing

and six year old you

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

For Andrew.  On a day like today.

Sugar

Street Posts, Seattle, WA.  Image © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

 

 

when your spindles turned

to char-

coal,

you wiped your eye-

lashes

and turned your hair crimson, cocoa,

blonde, black

melting in the freeze;

you, a candy in the dish,

purple and licked,

true confections on the tip

of your tongue

giving kisses

cold-

er than

they’ve draw you

in the lines

of your cheekbones

and jaw-

dropping curves

the ones

 no one keeps

past

yesterday

but still

you try to be, to do

everything they want

turning bucks

and, when honest, at your heart,

feel something

you’ve heard

is akin to love

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

 

Bucking Winter

spring horsetails

even john wayne

can’t tame ‘em

Copyright © 2013 Jennifer Wagner

For Carpe Diem: horsetails.  Celebrating my 100th post, and since I am a cowgirl at heart this is perfect. :-)