today
9 a.m. International Education Week Humboldt State University
read >noon Redwood Region Audubon Society Meeting Golden Harvest Cafe
read >noon Dreamscapes The Oasis
read >4:30 p.m. HomeWork Hotline Call for details
read >5 p.m. Guitar Jazz Cafe Brio
read >5 p.m. Henderson Center Holiday Open House Henderson Center
read >6 p.m. Americans for Safe Access Bayview Courtyard Complex
read >6 p.m. Matthew Cook Cher-Ae-Heights Casino
read >6 p.m. Bill McBride and Friends Hotel Ivanhoe
read >6 p.m. Kindred Spirits Mad River Brewing Company
read >6 p.m. Watershed Restoration Week Celebration Wharfinger Building
read >6:30 p.m. Seabury Gould at Gallagher's Gallagher's
read >6:30 p.m. Share a Story: Growing Vegetable Soup Arcata Library
read >6:30 p.m. 2008 Transgender Day of Remebrance Humboldt County Courthouse
read >7 p.m. Blue Grass Jam Old Town Coffee & Chocolates
read >7 p.m. Mr. Calamari's Jazz Machine Mosgo's
read >7 p.m. All Ages Open Mic East Side Deli
read >7 p.m. Don's Neighbors Gilded Rose
read >7 p.m. KEET-TV's Annual Holiday Auction See Event Description
read >8 p.m. Karaoke WAVE @ blue lake casino
read >8 p.m. Karaoke at Bear River Casino Bear River Casino
read >8 p.m. Smuin Ballet: The Christmas Ballet Van Duzer Theater at HSU
read >8 p.m. Getting It Arcata Playhouse
read >8 p.m. She Loves Me North Coast Repertory Theater
read >8 p.m. The Medium Gist Hall Theater at HSU
read >8:30 p.m. Keak da Sneak, San Quinn Mazzotti's Arcata
read >9 p.m. Soldiers of Shangri-la Six Rivers Brewery
read >9 p.m. Dancehall/Reggae Thursday with Rude Lion Sound DJ Jimmy Jonz The Red Fox Tavern
read >9 p.m. Scotch Wiggly The Boiler Room
read >9 p.m. The Common Vice, Silent Giants, Rooster McClintock Humboldt Brews
read >9 p.m. Hillstomp, O'Death Jambalaya
read >9:30 p.m. DJ Ray Ragg's Rack Room
read >10 p.m. Music by DJ Sidelines
read >10 p.m. Lightnin' Bill Woodcock Pearl Lounge
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The Bees Have Not Yet Left
By James Crews
I woke to the music of your coffee spoon on ceramic
stirring the last of the wildflower honey into a cup.
But with a click, morning news began to pour heavy
into the bedroom, the anchor’s voices too measured
& smooth for the tangled math of troop build-ups,
Senate votes & death tolls they kept listing endlessly.
Forgive me, distant wars, local mothers & fathers,
but I could not listen or embed myself. Instead, I
sneaked out the back door down to the boardwalk
& picked hyacinths on fire & violet in rising light.
I placed them in last night’s water glass as if this
one act could save a life or suddenly erase reports
of whole colonies of bees lost on the wrong roads
between phone signals. If apocalypse ever shows up,
I thought, let us then eat ashen bread & tubers.
Because I refused to watch another second tick by
wasted while you were waiting for me at the table
with dishes of fresh blueberries buried in cream,
I flipped off the TV, threw open all the windows
& focused only on feeling the familiar, salted breeze
filtering lazily in from Humboldt Bay & trembling
the petals of the hyacinths I held out to you until
their pollen scattered golden before us, this dust
filling the air we are all still breathing together.
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