Jennifer’s poignant tapestry of fleeting moments—playful, tender, and wistful—captures love, memory, change, and longing in vivid poetic glimpses, exclusively for Different Truths.
my crazy cat
zooming around upstairs
circles on circles
chasing
ghosts
***
every drawer I open
every room I enter
every page I turn
every thought I have
memories of you
****
my youngest of four
graduated yesterday
feeling proud and
a tad untethered
my heart sets sail with his
***
across the dark street
light shines in a window
how I long
to be
in that light
***
my phone buzzes
softly in my pocket
muffled, muted--
so much quieter than
the thumping of my heart
Picture design by Anumita Roy
Jennifer Gurney, based in Colorado, teaches, paints, writes, and hikes. Her poems have appeared internationally in 11 books and won two contests. They have also been set to music, displayed on screens in Australia, printed in Washington, D.C., shared through the Rx Poetry project, and featured on a bus in Wisconsin. A lifelong writer, she says that at 62, joy and sorrow finally give her enough depth to write a decent poem now and then.
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