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Port Townsend, WA
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Rusty North

Rusty North says, “I became addicted to poetry before I could read or write. I was fortunate in having folks who were wonderful readers, so, by the time I found out I was supposed to be bored with it, it was too late. I was hooked.”  Rusty has written poetry for seventy-five years. She has published poetry, as owner and editor of the Sagittarius Press, for thirty years. She taught a module called, “The Poet’s Press” at Evergreen State College and made a video of area poets that she presented at Centrum and at Seattle’s Bumbershoot Arts Festival.   “I still write and publish, and intend to maintain my habit ‘til it is time to go.  My dearest wish is to infect everyone else.”  

Higher Than a Kite

Winds blow in Port Townsend

and I see all of us

on long, long tethers

blithely floating

out over the bay.

The gulls are astonished

(even an eagle or two)

outraged at this invasion.

Because of the leash laws

our dogs anchor us

to familiar yards and hedges.

They will not let us go.

We are their faithful companions

and they cannot afford the fines for strays.

Let’s make a day of it,

blowing kisses and bobbing

at the end of our lines.

O, it is fine up here

when the wind blows

            in Port Townsend.

                        from Rusty North’s chapbook

                        Higher Than a Kite