(poster made by Kadi Franson – www.kadifranson.com)

The theme this year is: Love’s Only Border is Love

Celebrate Valentines Weekend this year with house concerts, nature hikes, workshops, discussion groups, food, and lots of fun!

Once again theillalogicalspoon will serve as “house band”. And many other musical friends will perform to entertain and inspire. Including Railcar Grafitti, Wonky Tonk, Fields of Industry, Lisa Wolf, and more…

For more information email: theillalogicalspoon@gmail.com

August 23 – North Star Lounge. Ann Arbor, MI. 9pm
Buy tickets here: https://www.nstarlounge.com/events/littlespoonriver

September 19 – Art 634. Jackson, MI 5:30pm. W/ Billy King, Elisabeth Pixley-Fink, Rachel Neal
Benefit Show for Conservation Cemetery,
Buy tickets here: https://givebutter.com/JQ4caS

The River

By Jim Harrison

Yes, we’ll gather by the river,

the beautiful, the beautiful river.

They say it runs by the throne of God.

This is where God invented fish.

Wherever, but then God’s throne is as wide

as the universe. If you’re attentive you’ll

see the throne’s borders in the stars. We’re on this side

and when you get to the other side we don’t know

what will happen if anything. If nothing happens

we won’t know it, I said once. Is that cynical?

No, nothing is nothing, not upsetting just

nothing. Then again maybe we’ll be cast

at the speed of light through the universe

to God’s throne. His hair is bounteous.

All the 5,000 birds on earth were created there.

The firstborn cranes, herons, hawks, at the back

so as not to frighten the little ones.

Even now they remember this divine habitat.

Shall we gather at the river, this beautiful river?

We’ll sing with the warblers perched on his eyelashes.