"'Day three in the cabin during a horrific storm,'" Nickel read dramatically from his notebook. "'Flora is rummaging through the refrigerator like a hungry weasel, searching for something mysterious, and possibly poisonous.'"
Nickel wrote silently in his notebook everyday, and had just begun reading his view of our life in the cabin.
His writing is funny, sly, and some times poignant. Sylvan had taught me the word poignant.
"It may be the most important thing in poetry," Sylvan tells me. "Poignancy."
Sylvan would have said that Nickel had style.
The Poet's Dog, P36-37
Patricia MacLachlan
ISBN 978-0-06-229262-9
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