Dónall Dempsey - ' ' ' ' ' ' ' EMERSON'S WRITINGS

Ralph Waldo
suffering Alzheimer's

lost in this wilderness
of forgetting

sticks to his
routine of solitude.

Reading still
'an unbroken pleasure.'

Losing all recollection
of his own

writings

delighting in discovering
his own writing

unknow to himself now
as himself.

Tells his daughter

'Why, these things
are really very good! '

Dónall Dempsey

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