Ghosts of Galveston at FPL

Peter Fletcher Recital at Friendswood Library

Classical guitarist Peter Fletcher performed to a full house at the Friendswood Library yesterday evening. The recital included works by Bach, Paganini, Satie, Segovia, and Albeniz among other important classical works.  Performances of Caprice Opus 1, No 24, Gymnopedie No.1, and Cordoba were original transcriptions by Peter Fletcher. The Friendswood Library has several of Peter Fletcher’s works on cd through Centaur Records. 

Carrie Kornacki, Juried Poet, Friendswood Library Ekphrastic Poetry Reading and Contest

“Northwest Corner, Southeast Light”

Installation by Mary Temple

Rice Gallery 2011

http://www.ricegallery.org/mary-temple/

 

Blue Shadows

Fall

Me, in the loam of my land, land once steaming with wild violets and honey air. 

Me, clawing into the earth, my fingers ivory babies, my life root circling blue

the truths of my rudderless rises and falls.

Palindrome

I dreamt of you and me.  Me, lying on my back, my shadow and an oak’s conjoined.

Flat-glass-blue shapes changed with the rustle of leaves as I thought of Keats’ hazels

swelling in their summer shells. And I knew life not as a series of events but as a curative

prism for the breathing in between.  You were in the garden, examining tomatoes as if they might

save us.  You, who always read me like a palindrome and never understood either way.

Snapshot

A bird turned inside-out, dying in the dry grass under hot sun.  A spirit released

blue, aflame around the stencil of its body, licking through every inch of plumage.

Plato’s quivering shadow that in one last lucid moment remembers in its talons

and wings the blue wind of its every flight.

Carrie Kornacki, Juried Poet, Friendswood Library Ekphrastic Poetry Reading and Contest

Carrie Kornacki is a teacher, poet and children’s writer. She has a B.S. in Journalism and has taught English Language Arts in Ohio and ESL in Suzhou, China. Currently, Ms. Kornacki teaches ESL at Westfield High School in Spring, Texas.  Ms. Kornacki was selected as a juried Poet for the 2013, 2015 and 2016 Houston Poetry Festival and a juried poet for the 2014 Austin Poetry Fest. In 2015 and 2016, she was the recipient of “The Lucille Johnson Clark Memorial Award” awarded to the top Houston Poetry Fest juried poet who is a kindergarten through twelfth grade classroom teacher.

Dancing in Bomb Shelters author at FPL

Karolyn Gephart, Juried Poet, FPL Ekphrastic Poetry Reading and Contest

Group of Parasols by John Singer Sargent

Group of Parasols (or A Siesta)

What a day that landed on my calendar

So many months ago

I shopped and planned and worried and worked

To make the day just so

I slept not much at all last night

The plans were too intense

My hair, my hat, my gloves, I might

Just faint from all the stress

Yet all went on without a hitch

The men were well behaved

We ate, we laughed, we strolled the lawn

Let’s sit a while in shade

But oh the deadly drowsy touch

Of sleep has come to be

We dropped the sunlit parasols

And yawned…to let it be

Its own guide, master, determiner

Of what will happen now

We drift away to summon it

A siesta we allow.

Karolyn Gephart, Juried Poet, FPL Ekprastic Poetry Reading and Contest

Karolyn Gephart is originally from the Texas City area where she taught journalism courses at Texas City High School. She moved to Friendswood with her husband Joe and son Adam in 1999 to become the Friendswood ISD Public Information/Communications Director. She retired in 2015, became a Master Gardener, Heritage Gardener, and watercolor artist.  She also is the main reporter for the Reporter News for Friendswood and Pearland.