Author: Jennifer Dennehy

  • Framed

    Framed

    by the kitchen window, an old apron set to dry on the black boughs of an ancient cherry tree.   Here and there flowered fabric petal-thin from many years of flour-handed use.   So worn that as the wind lifts it, the May sun shines through.   Earlier, as I hung the apron, there was…

  • Blank Verse for the Intertwined

    Blank Verse for the Intertwined

    I found them just before the killing frost. In the garden, with my rake, I uncovered 3 roots, interwoven. But the roots opened   their eyes and had in their faces the light- shy look of old women—like root grannies. Holding them, I felt stirring or quickening. They made whispery sounds, a moth and milk-…