Reality Changes With the Willy Nilly Wind by Susan M. Huebner

Susan Martell Huebner’s poems of her mother’s journey into dementia are by turns tender, funny, honest and sad as she considers what is lost, and what, paradoxically, gained. Life on the memory unit, the indignity of finding someone in your seat at dinner, the handbell  choir’s cascade of errors, the questions about kin that repeat, as her daughter answers again—these poems speak to all of us, and especially those making the same journey with a parent.

–Robin Chapman, author of Six True Things (Tebot Bach)

Prepare to be zinged straight through the heart. Reality Changes With the Willy Nilly Wind reads like a page-turner novel. You get to know the women, you get to know their relationship, their stories, their lives. This is a luxurious lyrical collection that blends all that makes poetry unforgettable – sound, imagery, and palpable emotion—and all that makes storytelling legendary—resonance, familiarity, and tangible connection. A treasure to be passed down mother to daughter, woman to woman, generation to generation.

–Kathie Giorgio, In Grace’s Time and The Home for Wayward Clocks and more