almost every
memory of you
happiness<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I thought we had years
decades, even
instead \u2026 only days<\/p>\n\n\n\n
even my cat
knows my heart is shattered
she’s trying to purr me back together<\/p>\n\n\n\n
saying out loud
every time, gutting
hospice<\/p>\n\n\n\n
honoring your wishes
to not see you like this
hardest thing I’ve ever done<\/p>\n\n\n\n
letting go
gets harder each day
as the end looms close<\/p>\n\n\n\n
this morning when I woke
in that millisecond before I remembered
my heart breathed<\/p>\n\n\n\n
it is fitting
I rediscovered passion tea
in the days just after you died
all tang and zest
just like you<\/p>\n\n\n\n
our wedding song plays
I brace my newly raw heart
What A Wonderful World
only five days since you died
for a brief moment, it is\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
too sick to make the journey
for our boy\u2019s wedding
you traveled in my heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Jennifer Gurney lives in Colorado where she teaches, paints, writes and hikes. Her poetry is widely published, two of her poems have won international contests and one was turned into a choral piece. Jennifer has four books of published poetry, My Eyes Adjusting (2024), Liquid Sky (2025), Love\u2019s Echolocation (2025) and Light Matters More (2025, forthcoming). In just over two and a half years, more than 1,500 of Jennifer\u2019s poems have been published. She is also delighted to be a guest editor for Haiku Girl Summer.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"