by Emily Wierenga | Mar 30, 2011 | Uncategorized
we’re in cancun and the ocean sounds splash and the seagulls cry, peach sky, and we’re sitting on our bed not speaking.a day in the sun, a day against froth of wave and whir of tire and barter and grovel before mexican shopkeepers and children needing shoes and others... by Emily Wierenga | Mar 26, 2011 | Uncategorized
“Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because... by Emily Wierenga | Mar 22, 2011 | Uncategorized
we took a trip, two springs ago, to a ranch in the dominican… me, five weeks pregnant with aiden, both trent and i craving what seemed a place of waterfalls and horse rides and rustic. the bunk beds broke at 3 am–and not because of anything romantic. the... by Emily Wierenga | Mar 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
she tells me she can’t stop thinking of it, of my mother’s smile, in spite of finding her mother in bathtub, in spite of getting cancer, and i understand, because i can’t eitheri sit outside all belly in new light on the rocking chair my husband... by Emily Wierenga | Mar 18, 2011 | Uncategorized
friends, you know her, the lady behind the poetry, the tender soul that bleeds love from The Run A Muck… she’s here with us today, amber, speaking on Jesus scribbling in the sand… The three boys run about us, and we stay at the dinner table with our...