Table of Contents

 

Foreword ~ Loren Logsdon - ix
Preface ~ Nancy Genevieve - xiii
Acknowledgements - xiv

Hold Back Tomorrow - 1
Constellations - 3
Night - 4
Sunday - 5
Keep us - 7
Stained Glass - 8
Descant - 9
The Layers - 10
Nightmares - 11
Night sun - 15
Thistled wind - 16

Once she was diagnosed - 17
I hold the receiver too tightly, - 19
Near Silence. Near Dark - 20
Saturday Concert - 21
thunder shower - 22

Vespers - 23
Awareness hit me - 26
Long tears - 27
Daughterwork - 28
Weary. Deep hollow - 29





As I kissed her - 30
Still, My Mama - 31
Words - 32
Paring - 33
February - 34

Rituals - 35
Thief - 38
Replicating itself - 39
A Day Flower - 40
Another August Anniversary - 41

So I shed these - 44
Time Markers - 45
Equinox - 47
Remembrances – 48

for tomorrows. - 49


NYX: Sister of Erebus
A Memoir of
My Mother's Alzheimer's


Cover art by Rhea Edge
May Discovery
Watercolor Intaglio Monoprint
2011


© 2012 by Nancy Perkins

ISBN 978-0-9712567-2-9 (Volume III)

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