f.a. nettelbeck [1950 - 2011]

i just learned last night that the oregon poet f.a. nettelbeck passed away last thursday. over the past two years i'd become addicted to his blog sewing memory where nettelbeck published hundreds of poems. the man was prolific as hell. i didn't know him personally, only as a reader and fellow traveller down this wacky, wild and oftentimes rueful road of a life in poetry. death, in spite of my post last night, took another one too early. fucking hell.