In a message dated 4/1/2005 8:26:24 PM Central Standard Time, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx writes: and I loved her poem "Grace" so much, as well as others of hers, but since I can't type her name I can't google her Dear Julie, Might this be her and the poemt? In any case, I have certainly enjoyed reading her--I was not aware of her (sad to say) before--even though she won in 1996 the Nobel Prize! Thank you, April, for being chosen as The Month!! Musing, Marlena There but for the Grace It could have happened. It had to happen. It happened sooner. Later. Nearer. Farther. It happened not to you. You survived because you were the first. You survived because you were the last. Because you were alone. Because of people. Because you turned left. Because you turned right. Because rain fell. Because a shadow fell. Because sunny weather prevailed. Luckily there was a wood. Luckily there were no trees. Luckily there was a rail, a hook, a beam, a brake, a frame, a bend, a millimeter, a second. Luckily a straw was floating on the surface. Thanks to, because, and yet, in spite of. What would have happened had not a hand, a foot, by a step, a hairsbreadth by sheer coincidence. So you're here? Straight from a moment ajar? The net had one eyehole, and you got through it? There's no end to my wonder, my silence. Listen how fast your heart beats in me. â?? Wislawa Szymborska ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html