The photo in this new section of Crossroads is not of a realtor's box with fliers about a great vintage bungalow for sale. No, it is filled with fifty sheets of a poem by an Oregon poet, free to the first fifty walkers who stop by and open the box. Every month there's a new offering.

So here is one means (and an easy one to duplicate) for getting fresh poetry delivered to neighbors.

To set up, all you need is such a box (mine cost about $25) and a post to attach it to (found in my garden supply stash). Then you need CSP, community supported poetry! You need poets you can invite to e-mail you something that might work for the seasons and keep the attention of fifty ambulatory readers. Fifty copies of the poem cost about $4.

What other ways might we "green" the neighborhood with poetry? Or flash fiction, or jokes, or favorite photos? There could be a posting board or pole; there could be poems laid into new or repaired sidewalk, there could be tiles and placrads in yards that were attractive and readable from the sidewalk.

Rilke said, "Poets are the bees of the invisible." How fine it is to post the work of some of these bees, anchoring it in the ground, placing it right beside the flowering plants and bees of spring and summer!

Let me, Erik, know if these ideas appeal to you. What part do you want to play? Bee? Hive provider? Taster of honey?