Forty years ago
On a winding Quebec road
An old woman baked bread
In a roadside rock
Carved out to hold an oven
She was nonchalant
As she served the bread
With melting maple butter
That dripped down our chins
We were in awe of her
That day, outside St. Anne’s,
I still am
Jennifer Gurney lives in Colorado where she teaches, paints, writes and hikes. She is a newly published poet. Her first 72 poems have just been published in late 2022 / early 2023, at age 59. During the pandemic she joined the online poetry community of The Daily Haiku.
