Poem from

First Column, Magnetic Poetry block from 07 calendar given to me by teacher friend:


love, keep, year, must, easy, after, hard, work, look, sing, melt, man, turn

Art by Don Fels

SAM Gallery Artists on Place, Artist Reception Thursday Sept. 13, 5-7 pm

Love thy neighbor as thy self cannot
keep youth in thrall, as year after
year those happy times ago when
must ran higgly piggly with shall as
easy as milk and mama as salmon
after milt when the world pulsed
hard with crisp apples, a
work in upward progress. We
look now to nostalgia, wanting to
sing for once was. As ice floes
melt we buy away our guilt,
man we bray to muted sky,
turn another sway around the sun.
-Laura Gamache

POETRY READING ALERT:
Rebecca Loudon, Peter Pereira and Jared Leising will be reading at Elliot Bay Bookstore on Friday (THIS Friday, Sept. 14). Read this blurb and GOOOOOOOO! :

Tonight we feature what should be an engaging trio of poets, both established and emerging, creators of some of the better work coming out of this corner of the country. Physician and poet Peter Pereira, founding editor of Floating Bridge Press, will read from his newest collection, What's Written on the Body (Copper Canyon Press). Joining him is Rebecca Loudon, here with two new books, Radish King (Ravenna Press) and Navigate, Amelia Earhart's Letters Home (No Tell Books). Also on tap here is Jared Leising, who teaches English at Cascadia Community College, volunteers for 826 Seattle, and has a chapbook out, The Widows and Orphans of Winesburg, Ohio (Pudding House Publications).