Thank you kindly for finally publishing my husband’s last poem on the internet along with the nice photograph from one of our hayfields. While I’m not sure what Demod would have thought of The Hayfield being called an “epic drinking poem” it all looks very impressive.

However, there must be some mistake on the issue of payment. I was embarrassed to see that you had published only the first two pages of the poem, stating that we the family owed you money. After you and I spoke in June, I wired you $12,000 that was to include the posthumous website and annotation by literary scholars. Wasn’t that the final payment? Sorry to bring this up in a “comment” section here, but you and your staff have not returned my phonecalls or my daughter’s emails.

Cordially,
Penny Smith