Dream Trilogy Poems
I. My Time Sometimes the dreams are so vivid.He’s back and he’s acting like nothing happened. Like I should be so lucky, like we can forget.I look it up and the internet says it is because I am Trying to process something, to get closure, to Finish the unfinished work on my own. I Do not…
Women, Witches, Witches, Women
Witches, Women, Women, Witches A Poem Women’s bodiesWomen’s ways Healing throughout history Birthing throughout history They said it couldn’t beThey said it shouldn’t be They said we couldn’t beThey said we shouldn’t be Our bodies, our powersOur bodies, our gifts They’ve been trying to erase and replace us For centuries now Goddess carvings predate it allFemale bodies worshiped…
Justice
Justice In my home officeNo one uses too much creamer But I always have to be the one to make the coffeeIn my home office I pull a tarot card to kick off the morning It was this or finally start that yoga or meditation thing It’s a major arcana, from my Goddess deck, and it…
Wildfire Afternoon
Wildfire AfternoonA Poem We play Animal Crossing until noon, and then Swim in the apartment complex pool With the tiny bodies of flies, bees, and moths as Company, pray tell what ambitions should one have in a pandemic, What poems should a poet write, What odes to nature when nature is on fire? What ode to humanity When humanity…
Animal Crossing
Animal CrossingA 2020 American Haiku Series I plant flowersCatch bugs and run Around my own island Nothing is on fireNo one has a virus Everyone is friendly Escape into Animal Crossing Is a 2020 mood If only we could give giftsEat fruit and sell weeds and branchesIn real life The night comes I talk to a ghost The goals are rewarding…
Okay Boomer
I don’t know if you know this but anyone can be a boomer, it’s not strictly hard line boring old age being called onto the carpet, out into the ring, but it is this mentality, this mentality that has caught us up, got us stuck, mostly unaware, it’s not just you being old, or being…
Upon Learning that Planets Make Sounds
The earth is loud. Those of us here well, we already knew that. It’s loud down here too,we take up space and send twitter feeds to Mars, they come back rejected nobody wants that, alien or human, we are annoying. The other planets make sounds like humming or ocean waves – we make sounds like TV, like…
Sinkhole
And it would seem that even with things happening that we can explain/ nothing is really changing/ Vegas is sinking into the earth because it is not sustainable, Vegas actually should and could sink into the earth that is fine by me, and / I am sure much of this world might be all the…
COVID Party USA
America is one big Covid PartyOutside my window, down below A baby shower is taking place Tables and tables of people, a DJ, catering Not a mask in sight, I sigh and pull down the shadeAmerica is hopped up on COVID now, like anything Else, we are easily addicted, easily fooled, peopleKeep thinking kids need their…
Float
Why is it that just after the sermon on letting go, I feel better, then, by 4pm in the afternoon,I pick it up again, that old hurt, that old heavy, that old grasping needy cling, I can be sitting here doing fine and then bam, triggered, and my hands are full of it again. Then I…
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Jenny Justice 