Falling Faintly; a Poem for the Late Team Race Legend Jimmy Fitzpatrick
10th February 2021
Writer
Alison Hackett knew the late Jimmy Fitzpatrick as a great friend since her university sailing days in the 70s and 80s. Hackett says Jimmy's obituary written by David Sommerville on Afloat last week meant an awful lot to her and she has responded to the sadness she feels at the death of the team racing legend with a poem
FALLING FAINTLY
for the last time, the gate open a little,
his absence not an absence but the possibility
of return; his laugh echoing from somewhere,