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Litterateur redefining world
Radio Times For Jack Foley
Nina Serrano
We had just begun working
together
On our first or second program
While we were on the air
Marilla Arguelles entered the
sound studio
to bring food for Adele because of
a stomach problem
The next show Adele was in the
hospital with cancer
You cried on the air as you then
did
for 8 months after she died
It kept me on my toes to keep the
pace of the show going
while honoring the copious tears
that were flowing
Though you never missed a beat
or a poem
Reality and recorded reality
balancing each other
The renewing miracle of love for
Sangye filled the sound booth
with spring
December 2020
Jack Foley to Nina Serrano
Dear Nina, what can I say to truth
except to thank you for telling it
You were there for so much of the
strangeness
and difficulty of my life
Grief watered my eyes like a parched
front lawn
as I thought of the years and years
and wondered what I could do
when so much of my life had been
doubled
Not Jack but Jack and...
No one was more amazed than I
when a young woman entered my life
and dried so many tears with her love
You, Adelle, Sangye--what women I
have been blessed with!
Intelligent, creative, loving women
who opened their hearts
and said heart's truth
to my longing, dazzled mind.
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