That one especially a heart-stopper, Stephen.
Each line itself.
Doug
On 2012-08-22, at 5:24 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Vincent thanks enjoyed having a read -at my age I had better also write it down!!
> Cheers P
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> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Stephen Vincent
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> Subject: On Writing Dementia - a little note
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> For those who remember - and for those who do not - the poems dictated to me by mom (Barbara Moore Vincent) while in her early nineties a few years back, seven of them appear in the new, all together rather astonishing issue of Eoagh:
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> If I didn t write it down, it s shhhhh : On Writing Dementia. Edited by Susan M. Schultz. Who deserves a big congrats for shepherding for what many is a phobic & difficult subject (getting old, ignored and a nuisance) into forms of instruction and 'literary delight'. And thanks to Tim Trace Peterson for making Eoagh a home for such a quest.
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> http://eoagh.com/?p=1371
> As to new poems, my mom is 96 and the voice has gone mostly inarticulate and mute these last couple of years. A kind of quiet, strange serenity prevails. Ah, the poem of hers you might remember, certainly took my breath, etc. away:
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> The Months
> January will open the horrible threat.
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> February will break off a few of the wicked.
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> March the winds will blow and frighten everybody.
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> April will break my heart.
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> May will come whisking through.
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> June is hard to decipher.
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> July will never stop to say hello.
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> August is jolly and happy for people like me.
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> September is hard to take.
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> October is full of joy for very few.
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> November marks the worst that could ever come.
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> December for many it s love and joy
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> But not for me.
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