| Show SAYING GOOD-BY AT THE NURSING HOME Camille Olsen Lindsay Professional First Place Personal Recollection The whole of it took two hours the transfer mean hospital to nursing home And then it was done from You sat stoically in the back seat of the car looking at familiar sights and not comprehending any of them At one point you even closed your eyes and fell asleep The turn-off to Spring City where we trailed the sheep in the spring down to the pastures above Johnny Armstrong farm we passed without comment the junction going to Moroni We stopped Then we went by to letherd of cows cross the road to mew pasture and you watched with attention asman rodehorse in front of the car wondered what your mind eye might have been discerning As we passed the dirt road that went east to the old ram bam thoughtsawglimpse of recognition The yards have been torn down and nothing remains of former use only the road going up Ephraim came into view as we travelled the slight curve Men were putting upnew sign Welcome to Ephraim -New Industrial Space Available And then the cemetery Your head never turned to view your materesting spot and the headstone your name engraved without death date Your eyes were closed as we went by home and Temple in front stood out started sagebrush on the hills Gunnison rode toward Manti of the November The white oolite brown grasses and We went through Manti and toward the Valley where abouthalf century andquarter ago you with your family to Ephraim from Fayette inwagon The Nine Mile Reservoir was low on water but there was not the usual comment would from you about how dry the year was and how hard it have been on the sheep this year You only looked at everything and nothing Mayfield community is with gas stop small and insignificant grocery almost store The forgotten school long consolidated with the nearby town was around two bends in the road Newly painted this structure renovated into nursing home was our destination not recognize showed the and your final earthly home familiar structure and the Your eyes did only emotion you was the fright of falling as we lifted you from the car to wheelchair The bumps produced by cracks in the sidewalk clacked 75 |
