Fall Setting

by Tim Bete | February 12, 2020 12:04 am

This week’s poem in the Catholic Poetry Room is by Jen Mannino.                                                                                                                             

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Fall Setting

Through the northern fall
morning darkness
The second floor bedroom lights
Sunset with slipper shuffles
Down to first floor lights
Glinting off breakfast coffee
A warm dark starting
Inside a chill that surrounds
Chill heard loudly
In wave-crashing winds
Surfing rhythmically
through once-leaved branches
Another sunset
Bright sunglow leaves
Under night’s darkness
Sink from tree to earth
Dawn comes soon
Winter joins on its heels
But spring is prepared

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Jennifer Mannino has puttered on and off with poetry since high school. God has brought into her life her the deep blessings of a 20-year loving marriage, two amazing children, and an adorable dog. She has degrees in Biochemistry from University of Wisconsin – Madison, and Occupational Therapy from Louisiana State University – New Orleans. She has lived in Wisconsin, England, Alabama, Louisiana, California, Guam, and now resides in Portland, Oregon. She greatly enjoys coaching a Roman Catholic Challenge team for her daughter’s middle school & keeping up with her family’s many activities. She finds the gift of poetry to be a particularly gentle, loving extension of God’s voice in her life that comes and goes as the Spirit leads.

Source URL: https://integratedcatholiclife.org/2020/02/poetry-fall-setting/

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