Invitation to Oral Tradition Poetry Salon - The Summer Day - Saturday, June 21 in Sebastopol

[Larry Robinson]

You are cordially invited to join us for an Oral Tradition Poetry Salon

The Summer Day

Saturday, June 21
at 7:00 PM

at the home of Larry Robinson
460 Eleanor Ave.
Sebastopol

On the shortest night of the year, we will celebrate the beginning of Summer with good fellowship, potables and edibles and poems and stories learned by heart.

Seating is limited. To reserve a space please do not reply to his message but RSVP to Lrobpoet at sonic.net with the names of the people you wish to reserve seats for.






The Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean--
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down--
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down 
into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass,’how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

	- Mary Oliver
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