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Jennifer Searls

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July 31, 2019

summer of birds

17 beats

It’s an odd quiet out there on the water at the end of July.

Read moresummer of birds
July 30, 2019

watering our babies and thinking

17 beats

Last Monday I picked apples from my grandma’s favorite applesauce tree.

Read morewatering our babies and thinking
July 29, 2019

ways to spend time

17 beats

She hiked to see the glacier, but really she’s a backyard sorta girl. 

Read moreways to spend time
July 28, 2019

How shall I measure time?

17 beats

By stalks of blooming fireweedor perhapsa massive melting glacier.

Read moreHow shall I measure time?
July 27, 2019

layers of texture and color

17 beats

I spotted a neat bit of wild art on my morning walk in the rain. 

Read morelayers of texture and color
July 27, 2019

Elizabeth is Missing – Emma Healey

Reading

I forget things—I know that—but I’m not mad. Not yet.  I listened to this one and liked it that way. Losing your mind stories fascinate me. This was good, but I thought the ending wrapped too easy.

Read moreElizabeth is Missing – Emma Healey
July 26, 2019

A: Delight

17 beats

What is the word for walking amongst the fruits of our backyard labor?

Read moreA: Delight
July 25, 2019

circling back

17 beats

I should not pass the opportunity to give some beats to a goat.

Read morecircling back
July 24, 2019

welcome home

17 beats

Farewell sandal lines! too briefly I knew you, but how I did love you!

Read morewelcome home
July 23, 2019

thread in a tapestry

17 beats

I’ve come home to find the dahlias blooming right here in my own backyard.

Read morethread in a tapestry
July 22, 2019

wayfinding

17 beats

There are so many ways to think about paths and metaphors abound.

Read morewayfinding
July 21, 2019

hummingbirds

17 beats

Soon they will don bright coats and fly on super fast wings,but not yet.

Read morehummingbirds
July 20, 2019

stuff I know

17 beats

It takes one piece of circle sticker stationary to collapse time.

Read morestuff I know
July 19, 2019

the way of things

17 beats

I think flowers blooming in hard places are some kind of deep magic.

Read morethe way of things
July 18, 2019

just one life to hold it all

17 beats

I cut across my memory feed today running through place and time.

Read morejust one life to hold it all
July 17, 2019

dahlia wall

17 beats

My boys stood across the street and watched me take pictures like a tourist.

Read moredahlia wall
July 17, 2019

right now

17 beats

A great big moon cracks the clouds to offer light for this dark July night.

Read moreright now
July 15, 2019

like coming home

17 beats

Time keeps changing my relationship to this land but the anchor holds.

Read morelike coming home
July 14, 2019

one bag down, two bags back

17 beats

Cases within cases for a long overdue trip to Oregon! 

Read moreone bag down, two bags back
July 13, 2019

anchorage // or – smoke break

17 beats

It feels so good to see the mountains again, rather like coming home.

Read moreanchorage // or – smoke break
July 12, 2019

where the wild things are

17 beats

Just down the street, along the path, on the other side of the park –YIKES!

Read morewhere the wild things are
July 11, 2019

Raise a Baker FTW

17 beats

My boy loves to bake and so it seems that I live in a bakery.

Read moreRaise a Baker FTW
July 11, 2019

Now I Lay Me Down To Fight – Katy Bowser Hutson

Reading

Where you, cancer, copy furiously,I fumblingly create.You can not uncreate me. I learned of this poetry chapbook when I heard Jonathan Rogers interview Katy Bowser Hutson in the first episode of his new podcast The Habit: Conversations With Writers About Writing. Her words resonated with some of my own experiences with trauma and so I …

Read moreNow I Lay Me Down To Fight – Katy Bowser Hutson
July 10, 2019

Raise a Gardener FTW

17 beats

My boy has a green thumb and I have lettuce outside my kitchen door.

Read moreRaise a Gardener FTW
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