Polly Kay (1904-1997) vividly and with humor describes her life in Richland Center, Wisconsin, in excerpts from letters to her son Skip written after 1949, including her 5 last years in an old folks' home.
March 13, 2012
Pathos
(1993 May 20)
"The voice of the lawnmower is heard in the land." And under my window also. Met the poet [who wrote that line] - tall and thin and blind, pushes an empty wheel chair coocupied by his wife until her recent death.
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