Inevitable as death is, it's still sad to hear this, Steve. You were an exceptionally god son, made her old age a better thing than it would have been. Something to hold on to.
Best,
Mark
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>From: Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Sep 25, 2012 4:59 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Barbara Moore Vincent 1916 - 2012
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>With inevitable sadness, yesterday afternoon my mother, Barbara
>Mioore Vincent died at the age of 96. During the past few years, among many of
>us here, she became known for her
>proclivity to dictate her own poems, often improvising freely off the work of modernist writers such as
>Joanne Kyger, Rexroth, Ginsberg, Levertov, Gertrude Stein and others whose works I would read
>to her.Much of her out put
>was published, most recently a group of poems in Eaogh’s issue on aging, edited
>by Susan Schultz. For most of her public life, she was a politician, City
>planner, and environmental activist in the San Francisco Bay Area, including being a founding member of Save the
>Bay. On the Richmond shoreline, the Barbara and Jay Vincent Park , now part of the Federal Park
>System, is a commemoration of the efforts of my parents to preserve the Bay
>from industrial destruction. A graduate and veteran of many of this country’s
>20th century natural, human and economic upheavals, she had an
>incorrigible sense of honesty, bravery and sometimes humor in confronting the
>reality of the various hands into which she was dealt. As not long after my
>father dieed:
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>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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>Barabara Moore Vincent 1916 - 2012
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