James Moore presents an evening with poet W.E. Butts, who visited Fairfield recently to commemorate his collection of poems called Sunday Evening at the Stardust Cafe. Butts is winner of the Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize.

His work has been published in such literary journals as Poetry, The Atlanta Review, Cimarron Review, Mid-American Review, Slant, PoetryMotel, Poet Lore and Spillway

Also, James will be speaking with Evan Hall,
whose recent global warming spot for Al Gore's Current TV, made it to
the Top 20, will discuss his career trajector. He is currently working
on a segment on this whole experience for PBS. The phone interview will
be at 3pm.

TRUST
By W.E. Butts

I'm at the doorway
of my empty apartment
like a parachutist
in the open bay
of an airplane,
who feels the unpredictable wind
rushing against his face,
just before he leaps.

The wind is a woman's hair
he must fall through
to be with her.
The world is a fact
they will have to stand together on.

After all these years,
I've decided against loneliness.
Outside, the clouds
are purple and grey,
and the air smells like rain.