Each year for the past several years, our good friend David Gutteridge (whom we lovingly call the poet laureate of Emmanuel Episcopal Church) has written a poem in anticipation of Market Day, an over-the-top kind of tag sale/bake sale that the church has held on the last Saturday of July for as long as anyone can remember. Here is this year’s offering.
MARKET DAY 2014 – from “Orcas through the Looking-Glass”
‘Tis brillig and the mighty whales
Do feed and frolic in the Sound
Soon coming are Emmanuel sales
In their church yard and ground.
Now don’t forget that Market Day
Will very soon be here where Sid-
ney Robert Spencer Gray our
Orcas church constructed.
So shoogle through your frabjous trove
Add something beamish to the mix
Of treasures in our Eastsound grove
On July 26.
‘Tis brillig on our Market Day
At 242 Main Street.
Come buy!
Eat brats, meet friends, Callooh, Callay.
We’ll welcome you – draw nigh!
Please join us.
Galen Burghardt
Orcas Island