We speak of quiet’s gift:
Clues revealed for life’s next step.
Where? What? When? Known within.
Post-dinner heart-to-heart
Plans with friends, date night
collide. Your feelings, my words.
Fights and laughs: all good.
Meal planning from farmer’s market bounty
Dinner with parents:
Fennel, kale, sausage, white beans.
Chat into the night.
Embracing the slow times
Random Tuesday off,
Puttering from plants to art.
Freelance ebb and flows.
Summer is visiting season
High school friend; China
roommate. Shared meals with partners,
ghosts of former selves.
You did well, she said
Meat folder, dumplings,
gain lan, with pork ear to start.
Ninety percent full.
View from my window
Lacy verdant shafts
ascend: a hundred year’s growth
filters morning sun.
3,000 miles to 0
Best friend on speaker.
Beach, river, leaf peeping, water sports,
hikes. Let’s do it all.
Biking to ballet
Candy colored homes.
Families walking, children playing,
dappled sun; all’s right.
The life changing magic of the color green
Small jungle in room.
Tall and short; gifts; plant babies.
Girl, indulge yourself.
Jessica Yen 