Oh so lovely - but heartbreaking sad because we know what’s to come - Jenine Bsharah Baines

…bmerge into grief, whirling,
 thrashing, drowning in images.
 
 I gasp for the innocent moments — 
 tracing her freckles like constellations
 as we sat on pastel towels at the beach,
 clinging like a barnacle to her leg
 as she taught me to ride waves.
 
 Dark images shove my face
 underneath the water.
 
 The terrifying teenage years
 I couldn’t und…
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Oh so lovely - but heartbreaking sad because we know what’s to come
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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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