<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">You are cordially invited join us for an oral tradition poetry salon </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><font size="5" class=""><b class="">The Work We Had Just Begun</b></font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Saturday, September 16</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">at 7:00 PM</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">at the home of Rebecca Evert in Sebastopol</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">We will gather close to the the Autumnal Equinox, when this world and the other are separated by only the thinnest of veils, to share friendship and poetry learned by heart.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">Seating is limited. To reserve a seat RSVP to Rebecca at <a href="mailto:revert@sonic.net" class="">revert@sonic.net</a>.</div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Candles in Babylon</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Through the midnight streets of Babylon</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">between the steel towers of their arsenals,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">between the torture castles with no windows,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">we race by barefoot, holding tight</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">our candles, trying to shield</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">the shivering flames, crying</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">"Sleepers Awake!"</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>hoping</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">the rhyme's promise was true,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">that we may return</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">from this place of terror</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">home to a calm dawn and</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">the work we had just begun.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; min-height: 22px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Denise Levertov</span></div></body></html>