Three Mysteries
What mysteries they are! The swirling rapture of love, the bursting open of sleepy seeds, a toddler’s trek toward language. Our quest to understand feebly probes their secrets with gilt- framed brush strokes, bubbling elixirs, books bulging with theories. But why the search to unfold their coded missives? Haven’t mere open eyes and hearts always perceived their glow—as sure as sun’s morning light, sneaking between leaves, igniting each day?
Since beginning to write in 2008, Nancy Jentsch‘s work has appeared in journals such as Still: The Journal and Braided Way. In 2020, she received an Artist Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and the resulting collection, Between the Rows, debuted in 2022. Her current writing project involves reinvestigating genealogical information she unearthed in the pre-computer 1980s. She has retired after 37 years of teaching and finds a bounty of inspiration in her family and her rural home.
