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Upcoming Workshop

Long Days, Warm Nights; A poetry workshop inspired by summer

Saturday, July 30, 2016

12:30 pm-3:30 pm

General Gomez Arts and Events Center, Auburn, CA

Details and registration here.



Current 6 week Series

This is the Moment: Poetry of the Here and Now

Wednesdays, June 15th - July 20th 2016

Sierra College Roseville Gateway Campus: 10:00 am-12:00 pm

 

Sierra College Nevada County Campus: 2:00 pm-4:00 pm

 

Hosted by Osher Lifelong Learning Institute- Sierra College

Cover painting by Lin Max

"All that glimmers"

 

 

 Well Water

 

by Randall Jarrell

What a girl called "the dailiness of life"
(Adding an errand to your errand. Saying,
"Since you're up . . ." Making you a means to
A means to a means to) is well water
Pumped from an old well at the bottom of the world.
The pump you pump the water from is rusty
And hard to move and absurd, a squirrel-wheel
A sick squirrel turns slowly, through the sunny
Inexorable hours. And yet sometimes
The wheel turns of its own weight, the rusty
Pump pumps over your sweating face the clear
Water, cold, so cold! you cup your hands
And gulp from them the dailiness of life.

 

 



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