I’m writing in response to Danielle Snyderman’s Field Notes essay “Not Yet, The Epilogue” (Spring 2021 Intima).  I wrote the poem “The Trail to Ahous Bay” to read aloud to my friend Joan Bodger.  She was in the palliative care unit of Tofino Hospital on Vancouver Island.  I had come from Toronto to visit with her, and to say goodbye.  I was staying on Vargas Island, a short boat ride from Tofino, and had taken the cross-island hike that became the poem.