Poets Dinner

hosting poets dinner day off theatre (Alfred rockified painted mighty table) I bought Honeybaked ham yellow tulips scurried tidied made my signature dishes cappellini pesto salad fruit special cookies Cecelia Hagen Charles Goodrich George Estreich Judith Barrington a dozen more Pat Love among converged conversed house ringing wordy liveliness unleashed Jim Shull assessed our pictures Stephen Landolt books Ginger engaged Carol talk wine flowed food consumed I was still in orange tee work togs no time change till all departed Mount Angel arts center reading small attended festival feature George heartfelt bright wrought personal poems I bought his book Cecelia started one Rimbaud her own concise yearning glimpses Charles longtime gardener wry observant entertaining Judith invoked dyke without name sturdy elegant I was too exhausted for post reception after Alfred pinball we slipped away loaded dishwasher crossword sleep