Hello Gill. I Think the nurse in question would be really pleased. She may 
even put it on show in the ward to inspire the nurses. I know we used to 
like reading the cards and letters, it does make you feel appreciated
I began to write a series of poems about my job as a nurse a few years ago 
and must have about a dozen about somewhere. I will post one or two 
sometime.
I will have a look to see who the guest poets are at DGP. But I will be busy 
in the next month or two but I hope to get there sometime.
Where can I purchase your pamphlet of poems?
Best wishes Sally J


>From: Gill McEvoy <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: new post. The Bath.
>Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 16:31:33 +0100
>
>Dear Sally, thanks very much. Almost everyone has said this about the first 
>3 lines and I think you're right. I'll evict them! Isn't it funny how a 
>simple thing like a bath can haunt your mind for ages? When I've got the 
>poem right I might send it to the nurse who gave me that bath. She still 
>toils away cheerfully at the Hospice, though she'll hardly remember me. but 
>it might make her feel good about what she has done for someone else... is 
>that silly idea, do you think? I ask this as you have been a nurse 
>yourself.
>I do hope we might meet at DGPS L'pool one day - I don't go regularly, and 
>not very often to the Open Floor nights, but I do enjoy their guest nights. 
>driving in L'pool lately is hell with all the road changes they have made 
>pre the 2008 City of Culture; I used to think I knew L'pool, but now...!
>every good wish
>Gill----- Original Message ----- From: "Sally James" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Friday, July 07, 2006 10:12 PM
>Subject: Re: new post. The Bath.
>
>
>>Hello Gill,  Many congratulations on your chap book. I saw that you were 
>>at the Dead Good Poets in Liverpool recently and would have liked to have 
>>met you, But I am hopeless at driving in the city these days and the group 
>>I belong too had something on that evening.
>>I do like this poem and as a former nurse and also being a patient myself 
>>recently I do emphasise with the sentiments in your poem.
>>I am not so sure about the first three lines though and think the poem 
>>could start at. "You came to tell me it was run".  But otherwise a lovely 
>>poem for me. bw Sally J
>>
>>
>>>From: Gill McEvoy <[log in to unmask]>
>>>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>>>To: [log in to unmask]
>>>Subject: new post. The Bath.
>>>Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 22:22:29 +0100
>>>
>>>I apologise to you all that I haven't posted/commented lately; been very 
>>>busy with the launch of "Uncertain Days" my first chap book. But it's 
>>>sailed away now, and I'm back to normal things again.
>>>
>>>This poem was written recently  - and no doubt wants much improving - but 
>>>it comes from 6 years ago when I was so ill I was in the local Hospice 
>>>for a while, where a very kind Irish nurse gave me the best bath of my 
>>>life!
>>>
>>>The Bath.
>>>
>>>(The point of that bath was not to be clean -
>>>I had gone nowhere but my bed and
>>>was already washed.)
>>>You came to tell me it was run,
>>>walked before me, your arms full of towels,
>>>as if I were a lady and you my maid.
>>>You helped me in, your hands tender for my safety;
>>>I sank into a sweetness of heat and foam,
>>>each burst bubble like a letting go of pain.
>>>'Take your time', you said, and in that time
>>>  I cruised islands of warm sand and soft ocean,
>>>woodlands moist with leaves and mist,
>>>summer days with bright red berries blinking out
>>>from golden straw, came back
>>>to you wrapping me gently in hot towels.
>>>It was like those nights of perfect sleep,
>>>soft, starless, bliss.
>>>
>>>Gill McEvoy.
>>>
>>>I'd be very glad of comments.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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