ALZHEIMER'S DIDN'T
trumpet itself.
I didn’t detect
its high frequency sounds,
didn’t spot
its webbed wings, sharp teeth.
It descended,
a soft-pawed cloud.
Settled
in your lap. Circled its tail
around the two of us.
Took time.
ABOUT THE POET
Judith Fox wrote nonfiction articles for national magazines, but didn’t
start studying and writing poetry seriously until the spare text she wrote for her
award-winning photography book, I Still Do: Loving and Living with
start studying and writing poetry seriously until the spare text she wrote for her
award-winning photography book, I Still Do: Loving and Living with
Alzheimer’s, rekindled a life-long love of poetry. She is a finalist for BLR’s
spring 2022 poetry prize and her poems appear in a number of journals and
reviews. Fox is also a fine art photographer; her photographs have been
exhibited globally and are in museum collections including LACMA, VMFA,
MOPA, and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas, Austin. Fox
is twice-widowed, lives in Los Angeles, and is working on a chapbook currently
titled: “Between Verse and Chorus.” JudithFox.com.
ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW
We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an
opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of
poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors
from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to
hear it.
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