One thing about loss is the way
Everyone wants to tell you about theirs
It is like your first time entering the dog run
All the fellow owners say hello
Early on your loss stays close by your side
Then it tears loose and joins the invisible pack
Jennifer Kearns
Jennifer Kearns is a 49-year old Irish translator living in Vienna, Austria, after lengthy periods spent in New York, Ireland, and Belgium. Her chapbook "The Hungry Gap" was published by Toadlily Press in 2014, and her poems have also appeared in The Writers'Studio at 50, Broken Plate Review, Freshwater magazine, Erbacce, and Visions International.