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.
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.
After dinner
Front porch at sunset.
My feet in your lap. You smile.
“Happy eighteen months.”
Quarterly potluck theme: PJs and pancakes
Long wooden table,
Seats shared, like a bench (like kin).
Laughter through the night.
Exercise in acceptance
Cuff, ankle, turn the heel.
A project for anywhere.
Boxes fill bedroom.
Women in Civil Rights Movement
Rows of squashy chairs.
Four activists share wisdom,
reflect, inspire, lead.
Jessica Yen 