Lorraine Jeffery
Ten Thousand Hours on the Violin
Harmony gone flat-- an elegy to your future? Aching hands repeat, again and yet again. Same note, no grace, no riff, just a nocturne tremolo, reverberating into monotony. A never-ending rondo, a slur of fugue before the requiem. You heard arias, toccatas, sonatas, crescendos from the Great Ones-- while glissandoing down to a segue into more practice. But today, you sit first chair-- a testament of unending dedication and passion. |
Lorraine Jeffery has won numerous prizes and published many poems in journals including Westward Quarterly, Ibbetson St., Clockhouse, Orchard Press, Naugatuck River Review, Halcyone and Tahoma. Her first book is titled When the Universe Brings Us Back, 2022. Kelsay Books published her first chapbook titled Tethers in 2023 and her second titled Saltwater Soul in 2024.