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Rayz Reviewz Volume 1 Number 4

4/23/2020

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Tune in to virtual gallery tours 
https://www.avarts.org/virtual-exhibitionr 
from the Association for Visual Artists and
 for on line classes and events.
https://www.facebook.com/events/2316201058676827/

The Creative Arts Guild of Dalton Georgia http://www.creativeartsguild.org/ also offers online classes and events.


Special promotional assistance for new  Authors from the Virtual Book Channel.
 https://lithub.com/this-week-on-the-virtual-book-channel/

​The Hatchie Bird Fest has gone virtual http://www.hatchiebirdfest.com/ The physical festival is cancelled, but several programs will be available online.

The Porch Writer’s Collective will hold their awards ceremony online this year via zoom. Further information on their web page. http://www.porchtn.org/

Response to Wendell Berry’s Poem, To Know the Dark”
The poem is short and elegant. In one line, he advises the reader to “go dark, go without a light.” I have done so on many occasions. On one such occasion I was convinced I saw a ghost until the flying phantom resolved itself into a barn owl. I have found little to fear, and wonders to discover in the world of night.

If you go out on a warm spring night, listen to the trilled call of the chorus frogs filling the night air with their romance. Do not confuse this with the repeated peep of the spring peeper. 

One night long ago, I stood on a tall tower above eco pond and listed to love call bellows of alligators. Under a half moon, a giant bull ’gator slapped the water with his lower jaw.

I have sat on soft pine needles in the depths of a forest so thick it would be dark even in a full moon. In a cypress swamp I have imitated the hooting call of a barred owl and got an answer that could fill all of Okefenokee.

If you would explore the dark, pick a trail well in advance. Make sure you know the route and hike it once or twice in daylight as your preparation. Carry a flashlight in case of emergency. You may learn, like Wendell Berry, that “…the dark too blooms and sings.”

The poem is short and elegant. In one line, he advises the reader to “go dark, go without a light.” I have done so on many occasions. On one such occasion I was convinced I saw a ghost until the flying phantom resolved itself into a barn owl. I have found little to fear, and wonders to discover in the world of night.

If you go out on a warm spring night, listen to the trilled call of the chorus frogs filling the night air with their romance. Do not confuse this with the repeated peep of the spring peeper. 
One night long ago, I stood on a tall tower above eco pond and listed to love call bellows of alligators. Under a half moon, a giant bull ’gator slapped the water with his lower jaw.

I have sat on soft pine needles in the depths of a forest so thick it would be dark even in a full moon. In a cypress swamp I have imitated the hooting call of a barred owl and got an answer that could fill all of Okefenokee.

If you would explore the dark, pick a trail well in advance. Make sure you know the route and hike it once or twice in daylight as your preparation. Carry a flashlight in case of emergency. You may learn, like Wendell Berry, that “…the dark too blooms and sings.”
 



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