Relishing
Time with family
Nebulous…?
Tenuous…?
Precious…?
What the word for
You-never-know-when-it’s-the
Last

There should be
A word for that
Oh-so-special time

It’s probably
A good thing that we don’t know
When it is

So we can
Live every time
As if it is

Jennifer Gurney lives in Colorado where she teaches, paints, writes and hikes. She is a newly published poet, at age 59, with more than 200 poems in print thus far (since November 2022). Jennifer has also published commentary about poetry. During the pandemic she joined the online poetry community of The Daily Haiku.