a crossword puzzle
side by side my parents

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Jean LeBlanc

Jean LeBlanc is a poet, artist, and teacher in Newton, New Jersey. She teaches writing and literature at Sussex County Community College. Her collections of short-form poetry include The Opposite of Bird (Cyberwit, 2015) and The Haiku Aesthetic: Short Form Poetry as a Study in Craft (Cyberwit, 2013). In her blog, www.jeanleblancpoetry.blogspot.com, she contemplates the role of art and poetry in our weird, mixed-up world.

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  1. We can envision the loving companionship and repartee that develops when two people share a favorite pastime; the child (however young or old) and onlooker become a part of the moment as well. The intimacy is sweetly and simply expressed.

  2. Thank you. Lovely. I live in a retirement community and there's one couple that's been married for longer than I've been alive. I get this feeling when in their presence.

  3. Such simplicity of words, yet it takes the reader so much deeper. What a nice feeling is evoked by this image. I find myself wondering – or imagining – what their years together have been.

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