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Sunday, 9 November 2025

Tribute to Eurithe Purdy on reaching 101! (and a poem by Al - read by Leonard Cohen)

NOVEMBER 9, 2025
 
Dear A-framers:
 
Tomorrow, November 10, 2025 is Eurithe Purdy's 101st birthday.
Please join us in wishing this remarkable woman a joyous day.

Necropsy of love
 
If it came about you diedit might be said I loved you:love is as absolute as death is,and neither bears false witness to the other--But you remain alive.
 
No, I do not love you                        hate the word,that private tyranny inside a public sound,your freedom's yours and not my own:but hold my separate madness like a sword,and plunge it in your body all night long.
 
If death shall strip our bones of all but bones,then here's the flesh and flesh that's drunken-sweetas wine cups in deceptive lunar light:reach up your hand and turn the moonlight off,and maybe it was never there at all,so never promise anything to me:but reach across the darkness with your hand,reach across the distance of tonight,and touch the moving moment once again                           before you fall asleep--
 
Al Purdy, 1965

You can listen to Leonard Cohen reading the poem here:

https://borealisrecords.bandcamp.com/track/necropsy-of-love
 
 

Please help us get that new basement finished.

https://www.alpurdy.ca/donate/


 

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