Poetry. Art. Her poems are like entries in an intimate journal; expression of her heart's passions and sorrows. And it is with profound grief and great love that we dedicate this book to our mother -- Katy, Clare and Paula. This collection of very human short poems, along with drawings and paintings by the author, serve as a testimony and memorial to a deeply felt, literate life. I clean the red clay / off my mare's hooves / with a white stone / or a green one. / All seems so precious -- the stones, / red earth, round hooves (I Clean the Red Clay). One of life's great features is the category of the irrepalceable. That moment that can't be repeated or matched. That subject that money can't buy. That joy that can't quite be described. That person who can't be forgotten. Susan is all of these things and more -- Robert Redford. Illustrated with black & white and color plates.