Jenn Givhan reads from debut poetry book LANDSCAPE WITH HEADLESS MAMA at University of Central Missouri
03 May 2017 Leave a comment
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Ritual with Fish Water
29 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
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painting by Vladimir Kush
She opened the door wider, allowed
him in—dragging his fish, his strings of light,
his wounds—from the rain.–Jenn Givhan
Miscarriage
02 Aug 2013 Leave a comment
in Poems Tags: contemporary poetry, fairytale poems, Family and children, healing poetry, Infertility, Jenn Givhan, Jenn Givhan poetry, La Llorona, Mexican American poetry, miscarriage poems, mother writer, motherhood poetry, pregnancy poems, surreal poetry
Jennifer Givhan
Miscarriag
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In a field where a hot air balloon waits tethered,
children balancing umbrellas and wearing party hats
plant birthday bouquets; where they grow
the swollen bulbs push open the soil
smelling of clay and fingerpaint. Even the sky
celebrates in reverse, hanging like pigtails from a jungle gym.
Not many daffodils or crickets are lucky enough to become fossils,
but here every joule of heat remains inside the balloon.
One might be tempted to drift away now
rather than later.
