growth

  • While Still Holding On

    I snapped this photo on my morning walk, and then it led me down a rabbit hole. We often look at the seasons as fitting a very specific set of rules. Trees lose their leaves in fall.They’re bare for the winter. Growth and regeneration happen during spring. Then I look at this tree holding on…

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  • This Place I Call Home

    This Place I Call Home

    My name is Jess and I publish poetry as J.L. Fizzell – a pen name I picked out when I was nine or so to honour female writers like L.M. Montgomery during eras where women were barred or discouraged from writing or forced to conceal their gender by using their initials. My poetry is inspired…

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