Nancy Nielsen died May 23, 2016 after a long period of declining health. I had the great privilege of caring for her – my life partner, colleague and dear, dear friend – through her final years, and of being with her when she passed. She wrote this poem on April 8, after one of many temporary recoveries from a succession of setbacks. Somehow, we both knew it would be her last.
Nancy left behind a number of unpublished poems, some of which I will post to this blog from time to time, along with my own as they occur. For those interested, here is her obituary .
– Alan Brooks
Oh, Who’d Leave This World
When the wind
that wind
wind from the sea
salt and wrack
lifting the meadow grass
ghosting with fog
or where
racket of crows
caw and caw
dipping
into the wind
Who’d set aside the book
this book any book
so filled with life
book on the table
Side by side
we talk of the stories
wind from the south
The wind outside
salt marsh wind
wind from the sea
who?
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