Late Afternoon Comments

When Vera read this poem at the meeting, it almost brought me to tears. She will certainly be missed. Vera was a former president of the League of Utah Writers, a former president of the Utah State Poetry Society, and also a former president of a couple of other literary organizations, one of them national. I forget their names at the moment.

A moving and lyrical poem. How good to be in a Poetry Society where they know Browning by heart. I am sorry to hear about Vera Bakker and would like to read her poems.

Vera was eighty-four years old and a beloved member of our poetry chapter. I would hope that all her poems could be gathered and published in a special edition.