I’d like to invite friends or anyone to the Poetry in the Parks session on Saturday, June 13th at 12:30 pm, in the courtyard of the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center.
My poem was one of the winners that will be printed on a sign that’s up for a year. Here it is:
Be Ready
A tiny cloud drifts over the bay, too low, and then we know it's a breath: a flickering shine from another being in the slap of the waves, an erupting interrupt, a joy pounding your chest.
Across the strait, a startled heron wakes to it, squawks and whips its wings as if swimming but through air, like your heart flipped upside down.
Invisible against the dark cliff, the complexity of water, the surprises of hope that might confront you.
