Author's Day at the Orchard Museum - by Anita

I should have worn

  a big bright floppy straw hat

        to the 1st Author's Day
  @ the Sunnyvale Museum

It was so festive!

35 Authors came with their books in tow,

displaying their booky wares; eager 

people streamed in on a clear, blue-sky day

seeking books: cookbooks, tech books,
books about making beer, children's books
(to mention but a few)

Volunteers were everywhere, moving

   tables under dark blue tablecloths

  with the Authors' names & bio cards

   (canopies for outside authors)

On the balcony: a cookbook author

handed out a fruit-cocktail cake recipe

(using Libby's fruit cocktail)

Videos were made of all the authors;

a photographer from Sunnyvale Library,

Mike Malone, came & introduced authors

who hawked their books to the crowd.

As a 2nd-floor poet with poetry books 

I met a man from Santa Fe, a daughter 

of Margaret Melietes the head teacher 

in my gifted & talented program
I had taught so many years ago,

my Dr. Chi & her family,
& teenagers interested in poetry.

                                     

While I packed up my books

the goodbyes from other authors

resounded in my ears:

        

"Let's do it again!"

"See you next year!"

       

~ Anita Schiffman Holzberg (edBC)