San Diego Reader February 23, 2017 35
Rhyme & Verse Three poems by Emily Grosholz
A Summer Place
The chestnut tree is sick, its bark scaled By yellow lichen, its leaves curled and brown, Falling already in August when the wind rises Across the patio our rented farmhouse opens Against the road. Yet still it casts a shade.
I sweep the boat-shaped leaves outside the gate, Trying absurdly to clear the courtyard tiles, but The road is haunted by djinn, wind-spirals That round the house-edges, bedevil the leaves Back into my face, past the gate, across the blue tiles.
All afternoon I’ve awaited my eldest son, My wanderer, chasing his long shadow across The crest of another hill, down the lead-silver river Of country road. Will the djinn blow him back again Round the gate, to the little harbor afloat with leaves?
Marriage I.
Now when I watch the flicker Of leaf-fall in September, My house set among bright Metamorphic oak, black walnut, Maple, seems on fire.
Now when I meet my lover, My husband, on the sheer Distracted weekend, what I feel Is not nostalgia, pale
As a remembered fever, rather
Something like an airplane’s tremor Over the sea at Finisterre, When sand dune, breaker, wake Tracing the sailboat’s windward beat, Change as they disappear.
II.
After another fugitive but highly scheduled mid-morning rendez-vous,
Children at school, laundry folded, professorial tasks suspended in air,
to bottle. This will be an interac- tive demonstration, you will have an opportunity to take part in winemaking steps hands-on. This demonstration will take about two hours, and then you can start your own wine. RSVP online. Saturday, February 25, 1pm; free. 21 and up. Curds and Wine, 7194 Clairemont Mesa Boulevard. (KEARNY MESA)
Yoga in the Rotunda Join us for quiet teacher-led morning yoga under our dome before doors open.
Enjoy an all-levels flow class with modifications so that each individ- ual can go at their own pace and work to their level of experience (suitable for both beginners and continuing students). Classes are designed to foster a positive, non- competitive environment encourag- ing well-being, mindfulness, and community. Saturday, February 25, 8:30am; $5-$10. San Diego Museum of Man, 1350 El Prado. (BALBOA PARK)
I brush my teeth and hair, admiring the pretty girl framed by the mirror,
Hardly a day over sixty, roses in her cheeks and sparks in her wide green eyes.
If I’d had a date like that when I was twenty, I undoubtedly would have given
Notice to all my other hapless boyfriends, and thrown over my formal studies
And even my citizenship, hightailing it south-south-west to another clime or season,
And even God, abjuring the hope of heaven for the purgatorial hill of earthly delights.
Yet here I am, at home, my studies completed, those unscrolled, gold-stamped higher
Degrees conferred, a fixed university post with endless disputes and a library-office,
Four children, two cars, and a forest of walnut trees in flux behind the back garden,
And sunlight streaming uncontainably across our unmade bed like divine laughter.
Counterpane
for Maxine and Victor Kumin, in memoriam Boomer, daughter of Taboo, Dam of Hallelujah, and Earlier of Praise Be, Today lies under snow, Her coverlet precisely Quilted by the hand Of February and her kind Owners, over many years, In rail fence pattern, Except for one edge where A bright celestial neighbor Adds a square: north star.
Emily Grosholz has taught philosophy at Penn State and also served as an advisory edi- tor and contributor to The Hudson Review for over 30 years. Her seventh book of poetry, Childhood (with drawings by Lucy Vines), was published in 2014 by Accents Publishing and has raised over $2000 in sales for UNICEF.
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DANCE
Burlesque Brunch The Vaude- ville Vixens bring live burlesque and live jazz back to the Mississippi Ballroom of the historic Lafayette Hotel for the first time since the 1960s. Sunday, February 26, 1pm; $20-$70. 18 and up. Lafayette Hotel, Swim Club & Bungalows, 2223 El Cajon Boulevard. (UNIVER- SITY HEIGHTS)
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Film Discussion Class: Rear Window Alfred Hitchcock’s tightly wound perfection that charms and chills. When a profes- sional photographer (James Stew- art), confined to a wheelchair by a broken leg, becomes obsessed with watching the private dramas of his courtyard neighbors, he begins to suspect one of murdering his wife. With Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr. 1954. 112 min- utes. Continuing Education Center at Rancho Bernardo. Info: 858-487- 0464. Wednesday, March 1, 7pm; $5-$7. Remington Club II, 16916 Hierba Drive. (RANCHO BERNARDO)
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Lunch with the League Come join the League of Women Vot- ers for a discussion about the preschool to prison pipeline, the policies and practices that push our nation’s schoolchildren, especially our most at-risk children, out of classrooms and into the juvenile and criminal justice systems. Mod- erated by Penny Adler, director of education, League of Women Voters, San Diego and featuring panelists Julia Childs Andrews (president of San Diego Association for Education of Young Children), Linda Trousdale (executive direc- tor of Student Services, SDUSD), and Priscilla Villafana (behavioral support specialist, YMCA Child- care Resource Service). Thursday, February 23, 11:30am; $40. Tom Ham’s Lighthouse, 2150 Harbor Island Drive. (HARBOR ISLAND)
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