Dementia – by Anna Kerdijk Nicholson

Poetry
Written By Anna Kerdijk Nicholson
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My friend again loses a word,

momentarily absents herself,

staring at her meaning as if struck

by holiness, by her gilded icons,

caught in a vision, pictorial and complete

into which her glottal stop sounds

and her eyes, flickering like altar candles,

reluctantly turn from clarity,

without liturgy,

unable to complete the response.

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Anna Kerdijk Nicholson

Anna Kerdijk Nicholson is an Australian/Yorkshire poet and author of three books, The Bundanon Cantos, Possession and Everyday Epic. Possession won the Victorian Premier’s Prize, the Wesley Michel Wight Prize and was shortlisted for two others. Anna has also won awards for individual poems. She farms in rural NSW.

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