Great Regulars: [Carol Niederlander] writes: "Alzheimer's disease

is a devastating illness. I have watched its progress twice now, once with an aunt, and then again with my father, whose early symptoms worried me even as I tried to deny them. This poem is about those signs and signals, coming at first from a distance, then ever closer, in ways that no one could finally deny. I thought my father faced it with a courage that reminded me of his days as a soldier in the South Pacific during World War II. We lost him at last on July 4th, 2008."

Storm Watch

For my father

from Walter Bargen: The Post-Dispatch: Missouri poet: Carol Niederlander

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