The first event planned for summer 2026, this was an unusual dramatic account by Rae Crossman entitled “Falling In Love With Poetry.” followed by Rae’s reading of his own selected poems by way of affirmation.  An extremely interesting Q & A session followed, prior to drinks and the buffet supper.

Want To Touch The Sky?

touch

the tip

of a young spruce

go about your life

for twenty or thirty years

come back

lie down on the needle bed

look up

and see 

your fingerprint

on a cloud                      

The experience that prompted the poem was a stop to rest on a long portage in Algonquin Park. Exhausted, we lay down on the forest floor surrounded by both young and old spruce trees. We mused about touching the tips of the young trees which eventually would be beyond our reach. The idea excited us and, newly energized, we sprung up and touched the tips of all the nearby saplings. We gleefully imagined that the next time we came along that trail our fingerprints would be on the clouds!