gracious response

a brilliant thought of an author

who has captured and wide, loving

audience for her work

 and then the gathered courage

to reach out to Jane Kirkpatrick

with her own loving story

of mother’s courage growing up

amid annihilating weariness,

ill-treatment and poverty

 the response, far more gracious

than our Susan could have imagined

  ah, the difference between big and small

intrigue

intrigued enough to read past midnight

something i wrote more than a decade ago

a mystery, layer upon layer

so convoluted i cannot guess the end

and it is the end that is missing

as i never finished it - arghhh