The Last Month

Author, poet and forty-five years a psychotherapist, Marcel Duclos wrote and offered these poems to his former colleague and Internal Family Systems therapist, Connie Robillard. He pledged to write and to mail her one poem each day, once he was told of the four to twelve week time contraint. He offers this small book for the benefit of The Ocular Melanoma Foundation as a tribute to one who lived courageously, eyes wide open, always curious, and abidingly compassionate toward others as she hospitably embrasses her prognosis.

Philosopher, theologian, psychotherapist, the author travelled life with college students, hospital patients, out-patient clients of all ages, especially those who suffered the residuals of addiction and trauma. He learned how to perceive and companion those who experience the realities of hman existence in the most challenging ways.