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| Yes you said, happy about my realization I felt at times that you evaded intimacy despite your dinners and lunches and the young women who loved you and came to learn from you How you wanted a "set" something left over from Europe a group of intimates who spoke of art and laughed and made you feel free Now, Nata, you are free of even the visual which was your primary sense free of all the images that crowded around you in your darkrooms in your long journey from Europe to the New World in your small light-capturing apartments in your heavy tears in your long life in your deep longing in your Polish words in your home for the aged (where I could not bring myself to visit you) in your dear life  | to which you clung with such persistence in your death in your death in your death. Author's Note: Photographer Nata Piaskowski died on August 19, 2004, at the age of 92. I had known her for many years. Her photograph of Robert Duncan on the cover of Bending the Bow is a wonder. Author bio and download on following page.  | |||
