unfinished treeface
Lady and I are hosting an open mic poetry reading in Chardon Ohio this Saturday June 21 at Beans Coffee shop from 1-3pm. It is a part of their annual heART of Geauga Arts Jam . . . check out their all-day schedule at chardonartsjam.org/.
Beans Coffee Shop & Bistro, 121 Main Street, Chardon, Ohio 44024, (440) 286-7545.
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Our chore share:
Lady cooks our meals, makes out the grocery list and leads food shopping, washes the floors and vacuums, schedules, pays bills, works 30-40 hours a week.
I do the dishes, laundry, clean the catbox, take out garbage, various other chores.
Mostly share the rest.
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Don’t know if there’ll be a poem today. Find out by midnight. 260 daily poems may be enough. Do know obsessing on a poem-a-day for past 8.5 months has crowded out the rest of the blog. Been doing a lot of unblogged stuff like putting a found object face atop a 20 foot tree trunk for Hooper Farms, and volunteering at the Chagrin parks for the Knee High Naturalists, which was outdoor activities for kids 2-6 years old. Lady and I manned and womanned the kite table. Did several bee activities, and we also planted more trees for the MetroParks. Lady’s activism continues and I continue being her driver companion. I also seem to be headed for a shoulder replacement; should find out today. That will make titanium and ceramic in my right hip, 2 synthetic hernia meshes, glass-plastic-metal eye glasses, plastic metal teeth, and a metal/plastic shoulder keeping me going cyborg-wise.
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Simmertime
Heat hovers like mad.
Plants wilt from want of wet.
People lay about.
Moisture mugs the sky.
Lake humidity rises.
Summer schlumps again.
– Smith, 6.18.2014
Summertime Summertime by The Jamies, 1958.
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Kneehigh Naturalists flying kites