Invitation to virtual poetry reading featuring Rebecca del Rio - Saturday, November 19 at 10:00 AM PDT

[Larry Robinson]

You are cordially invited to join us for a virtual poetry reading featuring Rebecca del Rio
Saturday, November 19 from 10:00 to 10:30 AM PDT

There is no need to pre-register; just join with this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85143871718?pwd=dnpobGJ3VDViQitoZ1ZENndyWGk0UT09 <https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85143871718?pwd=dnpobGJ3VDViQitoZ1ZENndyWGk0UT09>
and passcode: 553488



Rebecca del Rio is an American born poet who makes her home in Catalunya (Spain.) She writes in English, Spanish and Catalan and enjoys translating the work of others into Catalan and Spanish. Her poetry centers around day-to-day life as experienced through its mystical and mundane moments. 

Getting Clear


“Clarity is overrated,” I tell her
after she says, “I can’t begin until I’m clear.”
It’s in the confusion, the chaos
That something new can be born
like a star or starfish, some struggle
needs happen for the self to step aside
let life, new or rediscovered, speak.

Lately I’ve waited, impatiently, for
Grace to give me words.
My impatience grips boredom to
her core, and she bores into
The mind like an insidious parasite,
A virus that begs for distraction
Which begs for more. Emptiness awaits, waits for our noticing. 

Like the selva of El Peten,
The fjord below us creates
Its own atmosphere. Clouds,
rain-creators  rise up to obscure,
Hide from view what is
Known and familiar. What is
There if we do not fill in
The hidden with what we
Are certain exists? What
New life exists beyond what we know?
Like the
Rain forest, fjord we, too, need
Fog, mist so we can rest, exhale make rain to cleanse
and create new life. 

	- Rebecca del Rio

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