where songs come from I would go there more often 
                                                                      Leonard Cohen 
 
 
 
We come to a rest stop, the border
of July. We unwrap our pre–made 
sandwiches, we kick feet through 
the wild grass of a well worn trail.
 
       in the stream below—
    a school of darting fish 
         agility       
 
    
 
 
It’s the last day of June, which is the zero day for
the rest of the year and we just wanted to say
thank you for reading, for commenting, for being.
Sharing your gifts and the encouragements as we
all attempt to build a more comfortable relationship 
with the world and our place in it. It is a privilege
for our house to be able to attend this gathering. 
Watching the poems glittering and new, day after
day is astounding.
 
And, I believe that after what we have just finished,
 
a run to the ice cream store is definitely in order.