Old faces with new;
Four tables pushed together.
Like I never left.
Happy hour with former colleagues
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The coffee shop with the fig and anise scones
Spider plants in mugs.
Blue grass band sets up at six.
Afternoon work spot.
Saturday we wore green to a house party
Limerick contest,
Corned beef, cabbage, soda bread.
Annual rite of spring.
My partner and I arrive separately to dinner with friends
“I’ll take her; you: him.”
Real updates cast off small talk’s
cloak, on the drive home.
Scene from my writing couch
Windows south and west:
Leaves glisten, buds pop, birds flirt.
Light glows all around.
Saturday at Powell Butte
Ni hao! Budapest
is lovely! Trailside stories
swapped, boughs spread wide … spring.
A season for silly
Breaks rejuvenate
Even when the writing’s great.
Built a snow lobster!
(My partner has 3 stuffed lobsters, all identical but different sizes, and I brought 2 of them with me to this artist residency. I swear, him lending me a stuffed lobster was a bigger moment than him giving me a key! Of course I texted him a picture of this. Also, I might’ve been laughing the entire time I was making the snow lobster.)
Pause for sanity
Open porch beckons.
Silver sunshine, singing creek.
Lunchtime companions.
Date night | 144 miles
Your voice curls around
my heart. Landline to cell phone,
distance compresses.
A writer hits her stride
Working amid a
fortress of pine: thoughts flourish,
pen speeds along page.
Jessica Yen 