Sherry Chandler

Reading at Fauntleroy’s

The Mosaic poets had great fun reading poems of love at Fauntleroy’s Café and Espresso Bar last night. We were pleased to play before a full house, and we gave them all the angles: new love, old love, hot love, cold love, and love gone wrong. The latté and espresso were delicious, the audience was quick and attentive, Sonja Brooks’s fiber art was (and is) brilliant, and Genie Walker’s jazz vocals were easy on the ear. I thought she was especially charming on the sing-along rendition of Happy Birthday. Thanks to all of you for that delightful surprise – and somehow a cherry tart seems like just the right birthday treat for the occasion. Thanks, too, to Genie for giving us a chance to strut our stuff.

Sonja’s art will be there through the end of the month and there are still two more great jazz programs to catch in February — click the program above to view the PDF file for details. The House Writers will be reading fiction on March 3. I’ll post more details as I have them.

For those of you who missed this delightful event (I may be a little prejudiced here), Jean-Marie Welch has agreed to share one of the poems she read last night:

Morning Glories

The summer she was told
he fastened four long pine planters
atop their fence –
above these,
a gossamer trellis
of fine fishing line.

From her bedside window
she could watch
their last shared vision
unfold:

a dense curtain
of morning glories
ink blue
climbing skyward
with no visible
means of support

like his prayer.

      Published in: Appalachian Heritage, summer issue, 2003

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