Schneiders, Jay

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Volume 16Issue 2 Spring/Summer Article 136-15-1997Upon Reading the Obituary of Sarah CloughJay SchneidersFollow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westviewThis Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals atSWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Westviewby an authorized administrator of SWOSU Digital Commons. For moreinformation, please contact phillip.fitzsimmons@swosu.edu.Recommended CitationSchneiders, Jay (1997) "Upon Reading the Obituary of Sarah Clough," Westview: Vol. 16 : Iss. 2 , Article 13.Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westview/vol16/iss2/13Upon Reading the Obituary of Sarah CloughSarah Clough died today at 91, far from Hastings where the earth knew her knees as a little girl and the wind kept busy complicating hair.Where she courted Frank in ‘ 17.The papers say she knew books.“ Librarian,” they say, which is different now. Now, everybody reads. Then, she felt she had secrets when the new ones came. Smell of ink on the page, almost. Snap of the page you turned. Trust in what was said.The paper omits a line about remembrances.Not many left. Sarah’s Frank preceding,the others lost one by one to this March Hare centuryhurrying like hell on its gypsy way.I cannot speak to you of a voice that settled children. I have not heard Sarah whisper in an ear, just felt this serif wind of her passing,that last bay breeze of an old storm: her name today, the ink set well, the page arranged, her life held hard in the short clear words she loved, at last her own.Jay Schneiders<2 W e s i ® ,  e W

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