This message to you has nothing to do with a zoo. I have been waiting to tell you what your appreciation (and others) for Blau Engel has led to. It was your reference to Redgrave as “an angel” that brought to mind my poem of years back. After I retrieved it from my files I reread it and wept. I wrote it ,as Johnny Cash says, “in a fever”––it poured out in minutes. When I saw your “oh,my’s” it struck me that you had “felt” what I had written. I suddenly realized why this piece affected me this way: It was an homage to someone with whom I had had a rare, extravagant affection for; we were very much like the rain soaked dresses––clinging together like second skins. And I realized, too, that although I have had many close, good relationships with women I had never, nor will I ever, have anything like I had with this dear friend who is no more. So thank you––––look what one word can lead to.