Phyllis teamed up with Tammie Mohr of Choke Cherry Photography & Design to bring the turquoise dream-book to life. It’s my responsibility to honor the dream by getting the poem into the hands of readers who might need it.” “I don’t consider myself much of a poet,” she says, “and I don’t take any credit for this poem. Then it was like somebody threw the off-switch, and I dropped back to sleep.”ĭays later, when Phyllis returned from California to her South Dakota home, she shared the poem with some poet-friends. I wrote as fast as I could until I couldn’t remember any more. “The lines were already escaping my memory. She resisted, wanting to go back to sleep, but finally she started scribbling in the dark. Phyllis says that “something like a voice” told her to get out of bed and write down what she could remember of the poem. That feeling was so powerful, it woke me up.” “As we read it aloud, together, an incredible wave of love and consolation swept through us all. The book turned out to be a meditative poem. Its title was For the Sake of One We Love and Are Losing.” I can still see its turquoise color, and feel the texture of its paper, and sense its great age. “She handed us a book and asked us to read it to her, together. “We gathered around her bed,” she continues. We were there to give her a loving passage from this world into the next.” As we spent time together, I realized that my relative was dying. “One night I dreamed that a relative had invited `the family’ to her home for a reunion. In early February, Phyllis was in California working on a novel-in-progress. “This time it broke through in an unforgettable dream.” “Sometimes inspiration gently tugs at your sleeve,” Phyllis says.
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