With a warm spring breeze in the air and cherry blossoms just starting
to leak out from their buds, we gathered at the Red Rock. It was a potent
turnout of 7 Readers and a quality audience.
Readings:
Ernie Schaal ( USA )
Prose < Funeral of an Expat, Scene 3 >
Illiterate is a strong word. Let us say that she was not a computer
person.
Vash Bandy ( USA )
Prose < Kataomoi >
While you were dancing naked in my shower, I was cutting the heads
off of roses for you.
Prose < Random >
You didn’t mention on your profile that you are a penguin
Tom Bauerle ( USA )
Prose < Excerpts from Ghost Book: Seers >
I know it wasn’t a dream, it was real.
Prose < The tragedy of Tsu City >
Ghosts stalked the beach at night
Albert Sussler ( USA )
Prose < After Shock >
Realizing the damaged to their daily lives will take longer to sink in.
Prose < The Coroner >
Little girl with a bag of food, never to be eaten, to heavy to run
Linda Donan ( USA )
Prose < Clarence and the Bus , Chapter 4 , Finding the Bus>
I was headed for the wrong Mexico.
Joe Sichi ( USA )
Poem <Goat Song >
Some loves are perfect, they either must or cannot last
James Cloke ( Canada ) debut
Poem < Beneath my Hands by Leonard Cohen>
Whenever you move I hear the sound of wings
Poem < Ego >
Sunshine reflects off my ego
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The Next Open Readings is scheduled for May 15th. from 3:30-5:30 P.M.
The location will be at The Red Rock, Sakae Nagoya.
There will be a charity concert at the Red Rock on May 8th. Details
are still emerging.
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Thank you all for your thoughts and sweat in bringing life to our Open
Readings.
Albert Sussler
