<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: tuchyner5@aol.com<br>To: group3@bluegrasspals.com <group3@bluegrasspals.com><br>Sent: Sat, Feb 26, 2022 9:13 am<br>Subject: Leonard's comments on Sally's piece<br><br></div><div id="yiv5053230778"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;"><p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Is this
your brother? </span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">It is a
real tear jerker.<span style=""> </span></span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Very
powerful. </span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Does his
wife take him?<span style=""> </span></span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">It is easy
to relate to what he is feeling. </span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">This piece
captures<span style=""> </span>the situation </span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">captures
the feelings of the moment extremely well, </span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">as your
pieces so often do. </span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Yu tell it
so simply and yet so effectively. </span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">He reminds
me of a friend I had. </span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"><span style="text-decoration:none;"> </span></span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"><span style="text-decoration:none;"> </span></span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Worn down
by decades of cardiac illness</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">and drained
by an unknown infection</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">that will
send him back to intensive care</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">before this
frigid, bleak day ends,</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">the man
asks his wife of fifty years</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">to drive
them to the river that, </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"> in
warmer seasons, flows by their town.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Frozen with
no imminent thaw,</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">the
Susquehanna, dreary now, reminds him</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">of better
times when he fished for trout,</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">chugged
beer, and played cards in buddies’ cottages.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Come Spring, trout will jump
again.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">The clink
of bottles and the laughter of friends</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">will ring
out on Summer evenings.</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Is my
brother’s wish to visit the river off-season</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">a momentary
answer to cabin fever</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">or one last
look, dreaming</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">of times
that will not come again?</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;background:white;" class="yiv5053230778msonormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">
By Sally Rosenthal</span></p>
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