Invitation to Oral Tradition Poetry Salon in Sebastopol Saturday, June 19

[Larry Robinson]

You are cordially invited to join us for a safely distanced outdoor poetry salon

Your One Wild And Precious Life

Saturday, June 19
6:00 PM

at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in Sebastopol

We will gather in this beautiful outdoor sanctuary to celebrate the summer Solstice and Juneteenth
by sharing poetry and song learned by heart (no reading, please).

Everyone is welcome but we ask that you wear a mask if you have not been vaccinated.






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