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Jeff Ingram

Jeff Ingram     Jeff Ingram teaches creative writing at two local colleges and works on his organic garden.  He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife, Kim.

Most recently, Jeff has been published in Akitsu Quarterly’s Spring 2022 and Modern Haiku’s Autumn 2022 editions. He also has had a piece selected for publication in bird whistle: A Contemporary Anthology of bird Haiku (title subject to change) through bottle rockets press in 2023. As for inspiration, he spends time revisiting Issa in A Taste of Issa and has recently finished a wonderful read, eggplants & teardrops, by Aaron Barry.

seed library is Jeff Ingram's fourth microchap collection. 


Jeff's microchaps & selected poem(s) are available below. Click Title to download the one-page PDF 'micro'.

Origami Microchap

Selected Poem(s)  
seed library      

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Jeff Ingram CVR 2022 Winter 

Cover:

sod image from internet

greenhouse dream wake up soaked

 

newly seeded bed
earthworms rise to
the occasion

 

slug tentacle
no bones
about it

 

moonlit
on the tips of chopsticks
leopard slug

 

collared collard

primeval atom
caterpillar
wriggles out

 

cowslip
as in
moo moo

 

stretch of trees
where space escapes
strawberry moon

 

occasional star
we just count
the lucky ones

 

solstice celebration digging up parsnips

burlap sack potatoes don a onesie

pull tight
crisscross
braided garlic

gourds
strung for drying
a bit Blair Witch

 

happily donate
these heirlooms
seed swap

seed library
spirit of spirits
here before

Jeff Ingram © 2022

moon gardening 

     

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Jeff Ingram CVR moon gardening 2020 Fall

Cover:

Moon Conjure by Lauri Burke

 

still in our lean-to first light caulks the seams

 

on the scale

this morning

just me

 ---

tomato

bends her ear

folk wisdom

 

ready for a nice soak scarified seed

 

lips still touch

upside down

bats in love

 

puff the smoker emotes rooftop beehive’s delight

 

black bear
tough guy act goes
out the window

 

frozen pond skating Saturn’s rings

---

moonrise
the urge to carve
a notch into bone

 

phases change again today moon gardening

 

shoulders speak for themselves last of the radishes

 

the uphill climb to find it downtime

 

lavender patch
somewhere back here
nerves go lax

---

sweet earth her story takes ceramic form

greenhouse lullaby I cover seedlings for the night

Jeff Ingram © 2020

 

enjoying the soil      

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Jeff Ingram enjoying the soil 2018

Cover collage by Jan Keough

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daybreak’s crawling glaze time changes color

 

the sky opens
a kettle of hawks
spill out

 

 she snips a fern fiddlehead curled just so

---

parched garden
lettuce lives
but just

 

each step forward enjoying the soil

 

 

 

dancing bee
one abbreviated language
she longs to speak

 

a catbird gives its best Joni Mitchell right back

---

wings folded
the painted lady
prays a jay away

 

last night's rain
azures sip
our muddy reflection

 

flooded field two mallards make do

 

tap at the greenhouse door a cat wants in

first frost
last ripe tomato
she eats outside

---

chickadees speak faint puffs of steam

 

inside a greenhouse
snowflakes land
above us.

 

Jeff Ingram © 2018

harmless poses

     
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Cover art: scene changes
by Jan Keough

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 open tent flap
invites dawn
inside



out back
a toad and I greet
each other, the rain

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fish he chooses to speak then listen to

 

crayfish backpedal divine the current’s music

 

before a pond
stocked with koi
the heron genuflects

 

geese claim the lot’s last open parking spot

 

first road trip
wearing socks she wore yesterday
inside-out

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not thinking
touching larkspur
with her lips

 

oak’s pulse
he seeks
through a stethoscope

 

 

harmless poses paper skeletons dangle from branches

 

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still dark
she skis the streets
before plows come around

 

 

 


Jeff Ingram © 2016