My Poetry book, Sunshine in the Weeds, will be officially launched on June 1st by Anamcara Press. I am proud to be a part of this family.
I want to share a few of the poems from each chapter in the coming weeks!
The first chapter is Memories and Reflection.
Grandma’s House
Memories stir as I drive by
Grandma’s buff-colored stucco house.
Most of my early years
unfolded between those walls.
Playing paper-dolls;
making Kleenex angels
endless hours watching
my brother’s train go
round and round, changing tracks.
We tried to get it to hold our Barbies
as they traveled between imaginary towns.
We played dress up in the backyard,
had cook-outs and ran with cousins;
carving our names in the old oak tree,
Or swinging in the tire.
We tried to rescue baby birds,
begging Grandma for milk
to put in doll bottles.
She nodded her head and let
us learn our lessons
of life and death.
We rode bikes and
rolled in the fall leaves that
smelled of dirt and sun.
We danced in the rain;
became pirates and princesses,
cowboys and Indians.
Such were the happy days of childhood.
Praise for Sunshine in the Weeds
Thank you, D.A. Irsik for sharing your sunshine. This deeply personal gift reflects the giver: thoughtful, generous, kind, motherly, beautiful in word and in fact. Your devotion to life and love glows in every word.
Jerilynn Jones Henrikson, is a retired English teacher who dreamed of being a writer, has produced eight books for kids, a humorous memoir, a YA novel, and a creative nonfiction novella based on her grandmother’s childhood.
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