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Watching My Mother's Breath

From: Dale Short
Length: 00:05:22

A gentle poem about the ending of a 90-year-old farm woman's full life Read the full description.
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Watching My Mother's Breath
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Cloudbreath2_small With the early spring of 2005 dominated by news about contentious end-of-life issues, Kansas-born poet James Mersmann reads a moving poem about the gentle passing of his mother at age 90, following a stroke. (Not yet broadcast.)

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With the early spring of 2005 dominated by news about contentious end-of-life issues, Kansas-born poet James Mersmann reads a moving poem about the gentle passing of his mother at age 90, following a stroke. (Not yet broadcast.)

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Poem ends at 3:15, music continues to 5:20

Musical Works

"Lament for the Death of Rev. Archie Beaton," Kenny & Suzy Spencer, from the album "Fiddle Me Home," 1999

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