Your lips that pull my attention and your salient voice should share laughter and whether it is with another or each other, it is wished for. At times I wonder if I remember, or will need to remember, how to kiss or be kissed. For a brief silly moment I thought I would try to … Continue reading levels
Author: jenntodd/jcedarfox
As a mixed media artist in central Wisconsin, I am busy creating art masks, paintings, drawings, poetry, prayers. I am a maker of many things, a student and a teacher, a chaplain and tiny home enthusiast.
Stand With Me
because i need you to because you need me too also because we have everything we need and we are in easy control to laugh at speed, space, or time and anything that turns on our dime. this could be love or regret oh shit, now i forget.not yet?not yet.let’s not forgetwhat we were laughing … Continue reading Stand With Me
Optimist
At last, a breath so deep it was taken in and felt as brightly cold and bold as water running down and through roots; replenishing forgotten limbs and toes and head and threads of hopeless whithered ends swelling; reviving; resurrecting! For So long, we have been misplaced; For So long, that we forgot This taste; … Continue reading Optimist
Meat Carver
In this tactile antiquated impulseYou revealed yourselfmore clearly than rolling in ink;naked, downhillThat's all of me right therein dusty charcoal; in stinky ink,laid outIn this pinked sheer reaching hand in;shoulder deep darknessgrasping at something detachingtoo smallSo that's it? That's my all? Or all that's possible,for this un-papered thing reaching?[Never better and not possibly more than … Continue reading Meat Carver
Full Grin Spin
Like a 3D word search popping; saying and suggesting things I like and spinning this thing into a new center between this time of now and later; this place of here and there; 'what ifs' writing scenes where I wonder if standing by that tree, I can imagine your grandness before me; getting dizzy, looking … Continue reading Full Grin Spin
Eve
I would crash them together like boats on the lake or cars on the road the chaos the ever so close one tilting head and hip in between this and that I was the queen not in service but serviced quite a dishhhhhhhh just a sip a nip dipped in thick ness of business … Continue reading Eve
Should Have Bought a Lincoln
A plume of steam or smoke
Billowed forth from her hood
As a dragon would
Puffffffffffffffffff
In the Haze
Photo by Designecologist on Pexels.com And in the haze it came to them how each was like the other Except how they were not, Was how the other was more Complementary Sometimes it happens Finding compatibility beyond dreams And this day reminded By the gem of their finding Love in one another. This moment is … Continue reading In the Haze
Water Ways:
Water Ways: recounting events drawn from meticulous notes and some actual quotes from writing as a nine-year-old covering the news of a backyard flood in 1982. The sounds of splashing and quacking seemed unusually close as the cool morning breeze swept under the book-wedged window sill. A divine symphony of rain, thunder, and lightning had … Continue reading Water Ways:
Old Lovers
Old lovers; dying to see each otherLovers; dying to see each otherDying to see each otherDying to seeDying;[leaving that corner...misshapened, chilled, hollow]And all I could muster wasIt was a good dreamIt was good to dreamIt was good to dream with youIt was good with youIt was goodIt wasn't good dying It wasn't good dying with … Continue reading Old Lovers
Thin Tin String 