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Download This time I talk about Jane Hirshfield's poem Burlap sack, includes authentic page turning noises! Read up a little on Jane here.
Download I discuss Walt Whitman's poem "When I Heard at the Close of Day". Thanks for Callie for the suggestion! Here is his wiki page.
Download Hats off to you, Mr e.e. cummings! here's the text on a soppy wedding site! Here is one of his other poems, Grasshopper (possibly not appropriate for a wedding reading)
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Here is the poem featured:
Poppies in October
Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts.
Nor the woman in the ambulance
Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly --
A gift, a love gift
Utterly unasked for
By a sky
Palely and flamily
Igniting its carbon monoxides, by eyes
Dulled to a halt under bowlers.
O my God, what am I
That these late mouths should cry open
In a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers.
Download I get philosophical about journeys this week, reading CP Cavafy's poem Ithica. You can read it in the original Greek or in translation here
Download here Thank you for listening. Here are Candlestick Press and here is my friend Thom