I grew up by the Mississippi too - St. Louis! - Jenine Bsharah Baines

…he scent of a flower and there
she was, 18 again, head on my 
shoulder, us sitting high on a bluff 
watching the Mississippi flow 
in its eternal journey towards 
an ocean a thousand miles
south of our perch.
The Scent of a Yellow Flower
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Sep 28, 2024
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I grew up by the Mississippi too - St. Louis!
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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