Courtesy of SWBID
By Southwest BID Staff
On Sundays in August, the SWBID invited neighbors to join us at the Southwest Duck Pond for our annual Sunday Suppers event. This summer, attendees worked together to co-create a poem at each supper. Curator Beth Ferraro of The Art Island asked each table of guests to write one line that was inspired by either their experience at the event, the neighborhood, or what community means to them. The results are poems about community by the community. We invite you to view the poems in person at the Southwest Duck Pond on boards designed and painted by My Ly Designs. These poems will be on display through the end of October.
Sunday Suppers is a free program all about getting to know your neighbors and enjoying a meal together. They have been a favorite annual tradition hosted by the SWBID since 2017. To view photos of the programs, visit www.swbid.org/sunday-suppers. See you there next summer!
Sunday Supper Community Poems
August 8, 2021
A safe space for openness and access at your pace
With ducks on a low-carb diet
Everything is convenient
Neighbors are wonderful
A home for people from all over and close to the center of power
People from a lot of places in conversation with polite exchanges
We are well cared for by the BID
August 15, 2021
Green open space
Trees sway in the breeze
Ducks on the pond
Ripples in the river
Sun in my face
I’m in the right place
Great neighbors at our table
SWDC is the best place to be
When you help a stranger you may be helping an angel
Where friends and neighbors meet to relax it’s a good place & space
August 22, 2021
I am here – right time, right place, otherwise I would not have seen your beautiful face
Whether at the Duck Pond or Lansburgh Park, Southwest neighbors have made their mark
The Southwest Garden has figs – tasty and sticky!
Writing poems with neighbors is fun but tricky
They say Southwest is the hidden gem of DC, but it’s really the hidden gem of the whole DMV
Let’s not forget this particular tradition of Family Day when neighbors gather from their kitchens