Bob Boardman Poetry Case

During the remodel of the Library in 2014 the following inscription and poem was discovered on the back of the case. You can find a copy of the Port Townsend Leader article by Robin Dudley here. 

"This cabinet was built by Bob Boardman for the Port Townsend Arts Commission to display poetry – It will be installed at the Library tomorrow April 1, 1991 – since this is both spring and a time of intense change for our town I thought I'd put a favorite poem here – a time capsule of sorts."

 A Litany for the Trees

Hearken, all saplings of arboreal bloom

who aim to grow upright crowned with green.

Sing this credo to the shriek of the chainsaw.

Sing this credo to the wind and the rain.

I believe in and I stand up for

the knotty roots of nature

the tangled stems of truth

the intricate branches of wisdom

the boundless leaves of time

the reckless seeds of creation

and the flowering resurrections of the spring.

Sing this credo to the shriek of the chainsaw.

Sing this credo till the day the sap dies.

– James Broughton