Following in His Steps

Haydon Parley Nye’s wife,

Fonda,

died today,

two months after she lost her man.

The cause of death was

dust pneumonia,

but I think

she couldn’t go on without Haydon.

When Ma died,

I didn’t want to go on, either.

I don’t know. I don’t feel the same now,

not exactly.

Now that I see that one day

comes after another

and you get through them

one measure at a time.

But I’d like to go,

not like Fonda Nye,

I don’t want to die,

I just want to go,

away,
out of the dust.

March 1935