Runyon will read poems honoring significant mother figures in her life at the Jackson County, NC Senior Center on May 12. Her reading will follow the Mother's Day Luncheon at the Senior Center. For a sample poem, see below.
Louise Morgan Runyon Poetry Reading
Jackson County, NC Senior Center, Friday, May 12, 11:45 a.m.
100 County Services Park, Sylva, NC 28779
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the purple and the
gold
dear ma,
two months
ago today I moved here, I left Atlanta and came back to these
mountains I have always loved. today I walked down to the river the back
way, for the first time by myself. I did
fine. it was a warm, sunny afternoon,
and the fall flowers were in their full glory.
walls of coreopsis-like yellow
gigantic Joe-Pye weed, gray-pink
spiky magenta tufted things, Kirsten
says it’s ironweed
whole banks of orange jewel weed, petite
tiny lavender asters, slightly bigger
white ones
no blue chicory, no purple or white
ageratum
a handful of Queen Anne’s lace, mostly gone now
– your favorite flower – I thought of you –
the glittering river below
the dark distant peaks beyond
the goldenrod starting
the surprise of fresh bright thistles,
light purple –
first ones I’ve seen this season,
reminded me
of Penland
two single black-eyed Susans in the
meadow by the river
as a child I thought it was my cousin
Susan’s
personal flower
the rush of the river around the island
where Brian always wanted to camp
the near green hill across the river
rising straight up
and there in two low areas, on the way
back –
near the spring and above the pond –
the scarlet gift
of
lobelia
dear ma
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