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Fragile like smog shadows rifling valleys
the mountain holds its breath
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Fragile like feverish water
the ocean aborts the moon’s children
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Fragile like bees loosing direction
and stamens playing their last hands
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Fragile like children born overwhelmed
by viruses perplexed
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Fragile still
like a flower
self-sewing in the garden
in blooming will make no mistake
intelligence in its unfolding
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Artist: Max Ernst
Poetry of Light 
wow.
I appreciate all of your writing Jana – but it sure is awesome to see you writing poetry regularly. So much contained.
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Thank you Chris…poetry does inform. I’ve come to count on its ‘sway’. Some of these poems lately, like this one, are older poems whose words have changed, as meaning deepens for me.
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Jana, your fine words place me on a thin wafer edge of emotion I can’t name. Is it despair held together with a delicate ferrule of hope? I read with a gardener’s hands and fragile memories of a mother who believed in the unfolding intelligence of flowers. You sing a graceful elegy…
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Appropriate for the day then John. If this brought fond thoughts of your Mum, this makes me happy….
As a gardener myself though, I’ve come to wonder how nature might be ‘feeling’ in response to the human part of its anatomy becoming such a bully. This poem is less about hope or despair, since it isn’t about me or how I feel. I’m cheering on the self-sowns, the hearty weeds that still bring medicine, the fine tuning balancing nature manages. I want nature to trust us again…so I navigate that thin wafer edge.
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from my personal experience
and the timing
your poem flooded my heart
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may 13th
would have been my son’s
11th birthday
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the ocean
aborts the moon’s children
intelligence
in its unfolding
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I wonder Geo, that the title of the poem says it all… fragile still. I have mourned with you, my friend, for your loss and I have healed with you for my own sorrows within the grace of this friendship. Thank you for letting me know this poem traveled so far… Love to you and yours, Geo, love to you and yours…
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Jana
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love to you
and yours
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thank you
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