More than forty years ago a play titled, Mourning Pictures, opened off-Broadway. Written by Honor Moore, it is the moving account of the last six months of her mother's life. Jenny Moore was no ordinary human being. She was the wife of the Episcopal Bishop of New York and the mother of nine vivacious children and an author in her own right. About a year before her death, she was in an automobile accident that led to a partial nervous breakdown, and just when she was about to recover from this ordeal, she was found to have cancer of the liver and colon, and this is what finally took her life, slowly, painfully, inch-by-inch. Her daughter, Honor, was with her during most of those last months, and after she died she began to write poems based on a journal that she had kept during this period.…