Very sensitive to the moment, Stephen. Thanks for sharing it. Andrew
On 15 February 2011 14:10, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Touching, as always, Stephen. Materials for a poem, part of a sequence? Or
> are you assembling a prose sequence...?
>
> Max
>
>
> On 15/02/11 5:01 PM, "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > Valentine's Day
> >
> > My daughter is a therapist intern at the CA mental hospital where
> Carleton
> > Watkins, the great 19th century photographer of the American west died
> > insane.
> > The San Francisco Earthquake (1906) burnt his studio down including all
> the
> > glass plates from which he made and reproduced his work.
> >
> >
> > There she treats a geriatric poet with Parkinson's Disease. In his
> wheelchair,
> > twisted over in pain, he says the drugs are his 'Gordian knot'. Today he
> told
> > her that her real name is "Grace."
> >
> >
> > "Why?" she asks.
> >
> > "Grace means you are elegant, you have power, and you have light."
> >
> >
> > What a lovely gift, I tell her. Before his loss, he must have been a
> little or
> > a
> > bunch of all those things. Beyond that I am wordless. Absolutely
> wordless.
> >
> > Stephen Vincent
> >
> >
> >
> > ...
>
> --
>
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Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Mother Waits for Father Late' republished available at
http://www.picaropress.com/
http://www.qlrs.com/poem.asp?id=766
http://frankshome.org/AndrewBurke.html
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