When Vivaldi’s Spring plays
My heart lifts and then it’s like
Touching a bruise
We walked in
To This piece
Hearts filled with hope
Twenty-four years
We lasted –
Married
Then that hope
Evaporated
One poignant afternoon
There was another
Path in store for us
Without each other
But when Vivaldi’s spring plays
My heart lifts again
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.
