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Maypole Picnic



True story: a friend gave me a long thick piece of PVC pipe with holes drilled into it when she moved away from Madison. She had spray painted it bubblegum pink and she called it a maypole.

Later that year, in the spring of 2011, Helen Sarakinos and I tied ribbons to the rim of a bike wheel, and wove willow among the spokes, and sent our intentions out with the birdsong on the wind: neighbors and Friends, come gather together for a maypole picnic!

It is still just a PVC pipe with a wheel zip-tied to the top, but it has been a true pleasure of my parenting life to gather round it annually.


The May Picnic in the Park goes like this:

  • we gather from 11-1 on what is generally a very windy day on the banks of the Yahara River (in the parkway along Thornton Avenue)
  • children help decorate the pole with flowers
  • musicians bring instruments and play whatever they feel like
  • families plop down blankets and picnic baskets 
  • we have a great time playing, share food with friends and neighbors, and maybe even prancing around the pink pole



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For Zadie

and for Willa

with many thanks to my mother
who has mothered us all so well.











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