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A Portrait Of My Motherhood, From The Perspective Of My Long Suffering First Born
7am, she was my alarm, loud lullabies at the wrong time of day, her voice following the melody of the clattering kitchen as I followed the smell of toast to the table. She had my school tie in her hands, throwing it to hands that were too tired to catch as her wife watched the…
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A Haiku About Poetry
You are my soulmate, lovely lines, sweet, soft stanzas. You are my true love.
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Last Night’s Spell
Planting poppies under the waxing moon, I read my wish list to the stars, hoping God stayed up late to hear from his favourite girl. I’m just a dreamer, longing for long, late night phone calls, where I feel the Earth stop, then watch the sun rise, in a blink of my hastily made up…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x – S04E24 – Happy World Poetry Day!
On today’s bonus episode, for World Poetry Day, Jennifer shares some new poems, and talks about flight related anxiety, self isolation during the Coronavirus outbreak and why lip gloss is actually a really big deal. You can find the new episode on your favourite podcast provider here, and you can find the episode guide for…
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Self Isolation Saturdays
Sunlight has settled outside, knocking on the glass, gazing at me, the queen of quarantines, decorated in my Sunday best, my nostalgia, for the outside world,that I never really liked that much, until it was a path, to the side of the one I love, is a thorn in my side, and a thorn in…