POETRY READING IN YORK, PENNSYLVANIA:

            Monday, December 5th, 7pm

                                    

                                     Poetry Spoken Here

                                              continues at

                                       YorkArts: CityArtStudio

                            118 West Philadelphia St in York.

Lancaster poet Jeff Rath will be our feature reader for the evening followed by the usual open reading.  Feel free to be early for solo acoustic guitar by Tyler Clever starting around 6:30.  Feel free also to shamelessly forward this notice to friends and enemies alike.  And if you're a reader of Ruth Stone's work, we will carve out a few minutes to share some of her work in memory of this incredible woman.  So bring your favorite Ruth Stone poem to share or else . . .

"Monet" is from Jeff's new book Film Noir which will be available at the reading for $10.

Monet

        for Barbara Strasko

With haystacks, poplars and cathedrals

you sought to decipher

the Morse code of light

at different times of the day,

and declare your eyes

the equal of god's.

What were art and life anyway

but light?

From the tortured camel's hump

of Etretat

to the infinite sun-puddled fields

wounded with poppies,

it would take a lifetime

and the graceful arc

of a Japanese bridge

hovering over a pond

throttled with lilies

to obliterate the boundaries of shape

and create a pure abstraction

of light.