Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Unfold! (for AJ, born June 6, 2024)

 















Poetry friends!


Steve and I are preparing to leave on a four-city, 

two-state poetry reading tour

to support the recently published 

Ground and Sky anthology,

Journeys of Sacred Community,

which contains a handful of my poems.


We'll start in Erie, then drive to Pittsburgh,

to Kent State University near Akron, 

and finish in Cleveland.


We recently presented the book in Rochester,

at a special launch event at the bookstore, 

Before Your Quiet Eyes,

hosted by our generous publisher, Ken Kelbaugh.


A week later, we were in Buffalo, 

at Caffe Aroma's Wednesday night open mic,

which is a passionate volcano of an open mic. 

Thanks, Ben, for hosting us there!


Before we leave, I am sending out 

this poem about my new granddaughter,

one of the hardest I've ever written, 

overwhelmed as I am

by emotions and memories. 

I hope you enjoy it.


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