This is our idea of progress: 

We built a roof up over our heads,

In the goal of staying warm and dry,

But now, when we wake in the middle of the night,

We can’t look up

And see the stars so settled,

Shining faithfully in the sky.

We forgot how wide the world is

From our narrow rooms,

And how nice it is to cuddle up

To someone we love,

And listen to the winds blow,

And dream big dreams as big as the expanding cosmos.

Maybe it would be better to find a cave

And sleep in the opening, 

Where we can see the moon,

Journeying all night across the great canopy,

And bowing down in the morning 

In homage to the Sun,

And feel the dew form on our lips,

Stretch our fingertips up into the magic sunrise kissed air,

And realize how blessed we are,

If we have someone kind

To share it all with.

-jenn

 Night birds beware 

The cat is watching 

The cat is listening to your songs

From a high perch

From a dark window 

Only the shadow shows

The stark outline

Of the hidden audience 

A salience comes to mind

When the moon has only begun to wane

When lines blur

And fears soften

And just beyond the window pane 

A very intent

Hyper arousal of a

Hyper vigilant audience 

But nevertheless sing

Your lovely filterings

Your renderings of the sounds the stars make makes me question 

Where has the morning begun and the night ended 

Your cheerful chirp 

Softens the stark way we’ve come to define even

Life and Death 

You sing

And I will keep this cat inside for you

💗

-jenn

 Modesty sometimes means to shine

Because it would be false not to 

I wanted to pummel y’all into the ground

With my pain

I wanted everyone to know the sound 

Rain makes when it cries

When seven generations has come and gone

And still the sins of the fathers remain

As a curse on the land

And on me

My ancestors walked

But their troubles began 

Long before that 

But now at least the rain has stopped for me

Now I see with my own eyes 

The sun has been shining all along

All this time

And the sun SHINES 

Because 

It would be false modesty not to

-jenn