Local writers and poets are reading their work among the shrubs and flowers at Tallahassee Nurseries. The series is called ‘Sunday in the Word Garden’ – and this Sunday was the first reading since tornadoes hit Tallahassee last month.
The series is a project by local artist Katee Tully, who gathers the writers and produces the shows.
On Sunday, she also gave a eulogy for three pines in her yard, about 80 years old, that had stood tightly together. She called them The Three Graces – and found them on the ground on May 10th.
“What I know is that in the same way they grew up together, they were not going to leave each other behind,” she said. “I believe those three fabulous ladies locked arms, said ‘I love you’ and went down together.”
Here’s poet Marda Messick with a poem about her mother, who would have been 100 years old this month:
“The red of the lipstick my mother wore since before the Second World War was as scarlet as Marilyn’s starlet pout on a matching carpet in Hollywood. A red that blotted feathery kisses on cups and tissues, but only one smudge on my father’s cheek.”
Sunday’s program also included Mark Hinson, Joe Monroe and Paula Gasparini-Santos.
