Third Thursdays in the Bookshop

POETRY & POETS ~ Thursday, August 15, 1:00 p.m.  Enjoy a casual afternoon with local poets.  Do you have a favourite poem or poet?  If you missed last month's reading with Dr. Alan Bishop, there will be an opportunity on Thursday to ask Alan to share once more some of his work.  John Passfield will be here. There will be light refreshments and of course, "The coffee pot's always on..."  With the construction of our new bridge, plan to park on Cayuga Street.  See photos below.

Intersection Cayuga Street at Talbot (Hwy #3)

Bookshop-by-the-Bridge

THE BUTTERFLY'S DAY.

FROM cocoon forth a butterfly

     As lady from her door

Emerged ~ a summer afternoon ~

Repairing everywhere,

Without design, that I could trace,

Except to stray abroad

On miscellaneous enterprise

Photo: lbw

The clovers understood.

Her pretty parasol was seen

Contracting in a field

Where men made hay, then struggling hard

With an opposing cloud,

Where parties, phantom as herself,

To Nowhere seemed to go

In purposeless circumference,

As 't were a tropic show.

And notwithstanding bee that worked,

And flower that zealous blew,

This audience of idleness

Disdained them, from the sky,

Till sundown crept, a steady tide,

And men that made the hay,

And afternoon, and butterfly,

Extinguished in its sea.

~ Emily Dickinson, Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson, Chatham River Press, 1986.

REMINDER FRIENDS:  August Third Thursday, 15th at 1:00 p.m., Poems & Poets, a round-table sharing favourite poems.  Everyone welcome.  Every third Thursday of the month an informal reading of poetry or prose ~ or sometimes a Fascinating Personality of literature or other.