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Dear Friends, Neighbors and Members of St. Cyprian's,

We are now in the midst of the Season of Epiphany, Epiphany, the word and season too, have to do with seeing and are related to the word theophany, meaning vision of God. Here are a few poems about vision and dreaming that speak to me on this day,

 

A Dream Deferred

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

-Langston Hughes

"A hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life." Proverbs 13:12


Twenty Questions
 
by Jim Moore
 

Did I forget to look at the sky this morning
when I first woke up? Did I miss the willow tree?
The white gravel road that goes up from the cemetery,
but to where? And the abandoned house on the hill, did it get
even a moment? Did I notice the small clouds so slowly
moving away? And did I think of the right hand
of God? What if it is a slow cloud descending
on earth as rain? As snow? As shade? Don't you think
I should move on to the mop? How it just sits there, too often
unused? And the stolen rose on its stem?
Why would I write a poem without one?
Wouldn't it be wrong not to mention joy? Sadness,
its sleepy-eyed twin? If I'd caught the boat
to Mykonos that time when I was nineteen
would the moon have risen out of the sea
and shone on my life so clearly
I would have loved it
just as it was? Is the boat
still in the harbor, pointing
in the direction of the open sea? Am I
still nineteen? Going in or going out,
can I let the tide make of me
what it must? Did I already ask that?


 
That Everything's Inevitable 
by Katy Lederer
 
That everything's inevitable. That fate is whatever has already happened. The brain, which is as elemental, as sane, as the rest of the processing universe is. In this world, I am the surest thing. Scrunched-up arms, folded legs, lovely destitute eyes. Please insert your spare coins. I am filling them up. Please insert your spare vision, your vigor, your vim. But yet, I am a vatic one. As vatic as the Vatican. In the temper and the tantrum, in the well-kept arboretum I am waiting, like an animal, For poetry.


See soon at Turk & Lyon!

 

Peace,

Will

 

St. Cyprian's Episcopal Church

415-987-3029

turkandlyon@gmail.com       

 

SAVE THE DATE - ANNUAL MEETING
Sunday, January 27th 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.

We will elect new members of the St. Cyprian's Bishops Committee and the delegates who represent us in the Episcopal Diocese of California and the San Francisco Deanery, we will review our 2013 budget and affirm our shared vision.

 
 
 

  

   

 Coming this month to Turk & Lyon... 

 

Saturday, January 12th

SF Live Arts @ Cyprian's presents

Music Legend Ramblin' Jack Elliott

plus Vikki Lee & Russ "The Muleskinner" Whitehead

8 pm

Brownpapertickets.com

More info: cyprianscenter.org

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Friday, January 18th

Cyprian's presents

Parents Night Out

6 pm - 9 pm

Parents: you're on your own

Kids: pizza and movie at cyprian's

Ages 5-12

$30 for 1st child, $20 for 2nd, $15 for 3rd

Pre-registration req. by January 15th

To register email: events@cyprians.org 

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Wednesday, January 23rd

Episcopal Senior Communities & St. Cyprian's present

Free Senior Lunch

12 pm - 1: 30 pm

Come enjoy lunch and a musical performance

415- 752- 0139 Episcopal Senior Communities

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Friday, January 25th

Book Launch featuring Nick Flynn

7 pm

Reading by Nick Flynn from his new memoir, "The Reenactments"

Musical performance by Penelope Houston & Cass McCombs

Discussion to follow with Rebecca Solnit

More info: nickflynn.org

Tickets: eventbrite.com

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Saturday, January 26th

SF Live Arts @ Cyprian's presents

Gaucho and Kally Price & the Old Blues-Jazz Band

8 pm

A night of dynamic gypsy jazz

$12 door/$10 advance brownpapertickets.com

 
     
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