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Flying Pigs, Swimming Hummingbirds
Illustration by James C. Hegedus
Homage to the Women of Portrait of a Bookstore
Hidden Altar-
-tucked-
Where sprites bristle with Eve
and flow freely
No one considered
the ritual
no one thought it up-
out of book and prayer
twinned with time
came free spirits...
Tiny silken moth
fluttering by
accidentally brushes
the heart...
...light passes
and Eve listens
to lost Romeo
or Aristotle
or Cain
with same forgiving ear...So the falling trees
can accept their fate
for one more day.-Brett Brdas
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The Other Day at Portrait… · Pigs flew, Hummingbirds swam, and We created a Blog.
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Party pooper. I get the argument, but still: party pooper. (Let’s not send Louise Gluck a birthday card this year, and see how she likes that.)
Happy Birthday, Poetry!
I don’t like anchovies – thank god there isn’t a National Anchovies Month — but poetry??? Cmon!!!!
It’s take me into worlds unknown.
I really like giving out the poems in the basket. It’s a good way to connect with the customers and start conversations about poems, books, life.
Everyone seems genuinely pleased, even the grumps respond with a pleasing grunt.
Donna