time
in grief
passes differently
five minutes
can take an eternity
to fill
and an entire day
can pass
on one box of photographs
I rarely know
what day it is
right now
and how
could that
even matter
when the light
of my universe
has burnt out?
Jennifer Gurney lives in Colorado where she teaches, paints, writes and hikes. 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’s Echolocation (2025) and Light Matters More (2025, forthcoming).
