Poetry: America is Loving Me to Death by Michael Kleber-Diggs acrostic golden shovelAmerica is loving me to death, loving me to death slowly, and IMainly try not to be disappeared here, knowing she won’t pledgeEven tolerance in return. Dear God, I can’t offer allegiance.Read More Lyrical: Comment (If All Men Are Truly Brothers) by …
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Care Package for Monday, March 8, 2021
Poetry: Voices by Sharon OldsOur voices race to the towers, and up beyondthe atmosphere, to the satellite,slowly turning, then back downRead More (https://poets.org/poem/voices) Lyrical: Lodestar by Sarah HarmerAnd wait for it/There are only two things now/This great black night/And the fireglow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyMONDo3zNc Art: Edward Hicks’ The Falls of Niagara Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “What hath …
Care Package for Sunday, March 7, 2021
Poetry: The Comfort of Darkness by Galway KinnellDarkness swept the earth in my dream,Cold crowded the streets with its wings,Cold talons pursued each river and streamRead More Lyrical: Coming Back To Life by Pink FloydI took a heavenly ride through our silence/I knew the moment had arrived/For killing the past and coming back to life …
Care Package for Saturday, March 6, 2021
Poetry: What is Water? by Danielle Legros GeorgesWhat is water but rain but cloud but river but ocean but ice but tear.What is tear but torn what is worn as skin as in as out as out.Read More Lyrical: Helpless by Crosby, Stills, Nash & YoungBabe, can you hear me now?/The …
Care Package for Friday, March 5, 2021
Poetry: Emily Dickinson by Felipe Benitez Reyes 1I dropped a coinIn the the muddy-lake-And I felt poorer-Read More Lyrical: Daysleeper by R.E.M.My bed is pulling me, gravity/Daysleeper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUcKeKt8C1k Art: Edgar Degas’ A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers Photo creedit: metmuseum.org Quote: “I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.” – Bayard …