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January 2025

Holding
Light a candle. Draw the curtains. Lift a stone, and press it to your heart. Let the cool weight awaken the stone of your heart. Feel its walls soften…
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Lisa Jensen
55
If You Have to Wash the Dishes
If You Have to Wash the DishesStep into that spill of sunlight puddled on the kitchen floor. Feel it on your feet, your hands, let it warm your face and…
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Lisa Jensen
69
Ice Storm
In the trees, glass clinking, limbs toasting to better days. I lie beneath them, brave the shatter of tumbling flutes.
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Lisa Jensen
51
Maybe this
will be the year I do it all finally let the cult of productivity, the myth that I control anything slough off like dead skin.
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Lisa Jensen
39

December 2024

At the Threshold
The year is blowing out in great gusts, peeling birds from the air, lifting oak leaves in brown murmuration.
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Lisa Jensen
40
Laryngitis
Song of oats, crisp bells against a metal scoop, then percussion, precise, lid pressed shut before rainstick music of chia seed. My throat is dry. No…
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Lisa Jensen
30
how to enter a forest
slip off your shoes invite moss to curl between your toes let your toes curl around a twig pick it up in a one-leg wobble call the wobble a dance bow…
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Lisa Jensen
26
Aialik
I reject the notion that God is a dude, but today when he spoke, he was a he, his voice the voice of an Alaskan guide, guy named Buddy. We paddled years…
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Lisa Jensen
37
I Could Be Many Things
Clouds are white blankets, folded and stacked. Branches are arms, brown, thin, beckoning. Leaves are fingers snapping, crisping call to pay attention…
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Lisa Jensen
36
Ytidrusba
Today, I read words backwards for no reason at all: SERUTAN ECLARIM Niats & Rodo Revomer. Today, I pried a dingleberry from my dog’s backside, the…
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Lisa Jensen
31
Frost Flowers
On the same morning the begonias freeze, ironweed breaks in icy bloom. Brittle stalks spill white petals that splinter at a touch.
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Lisa Jensen
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