…is the number of poems that we–Becky Wills, Kenyatta Rogers, Eric Plattner, Logan Breitbart and I…

…and  Jennifer Steele, Todd McCarty, Maureen Ewing, and Liz Hildreth–

wrote while people waited, while doing Poems While You Wait…at the Garfield Park Conservatory’s Spring Flower Show opening on Valentine’s Day:

Thanks so much to the GPC for having us, and for setting us up in the beautiful Palm Room and in Horticulture Hall, and to all the flower-lovers who commissioned a poem amid the lush botany on an otherwise wintry Saturday.