Poet Susan Jefts, along with flutist Margaret LaFrance, will be performing together as OnomatoMusica during the Saratoga Arts Fest which takes place Friday June 15 - 17. They will be performing during a program from 2 - 4 p.m. on Saturday afternoon, June 16, at Preservation Hall on Washington Ave in Saratoga Springs. Other poets performing include Carol Graser and Mary Cuff-Perez.
For more info go to saratogaartsfest.org

The moan of a cello in April,
a movement from under the earth,
dark sound beneath the city
and outside a tree stands and listens.
Outside a tree stands and people pass by
the place where the cello moans
deeply from under the earth
slowly rises into the place
where people stop to listen,
where the cello begins to breathe
and the earth holds and releases.
Where the earth holds and releases
and the vibrato hovers and reaches
and the cello moans and rises
like a dark bird in flight,
low just over the city
that sits at the edge of a wood
where the trees moan in delight
at the rise of a cello in April
and the dark bird in flight.
Copyright by Susan Jefts