JP's Poetry

Is it a dance recital Or are you practicing a martial art? What is it like to live Entirely upside down, feet in my ribs? Do you reall...

Breathing and not breathing, Stuffy but clear enough, Inside bigger than the outside. Brain foggy from lack of oxygen getting in. Or is...

Walking The Farm I make an early rise to check on the trees, inherited from father four years ago. The rains were heavy early in the year...

Two striped shirts walk into the coffee house one white and navy, one black and white and tweedy It's so cute in here! (Their first vi...

One time, she tripped my boyfriend with her oxygen cord. She was playful like that, Even using her misfortune to bring joy. And she wasn...

Today, I have many growing pains. My back hurts in three different places. My chest hurts whenever I digest. My thigh hurts if I lie on ...

I always wonder where the apostrophe should go: inside the word or next to it. Inside implies one mother. Perhaps it means “motherhood...