Cactus & Dwarf Orchard – Summer Solstice 2014
R.I.P Charles Barsotti
Charles Barsotti, New Yorker artist was master cartoonist a true original and a nice guy to boot.
Photo by Fung Lin Hall
After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard
East of me, west of me, full summer.
How deeper than elsewhere the dusk is in your own yard.
Birds fly back and forth across the lawn
looking for home
As night drifts up like a little boat.Day after day, I become of less use to myself.
Like this mockingbird,
I flit from one thing to the next.
What do I have to look forward to at fifty-four?
Tomorrow is dark.
Day-after-tomorrow is darker still.The sky dogs are whimpering.
Fireflies are dragging the hush of evening
up from the damp grass.
Into the world’s tumult, into the chaos of every day,
Go quietly, quietly.Charles Wright
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Charles Wright named American Poet Laureate..