Poetry: States of decline by Taylor JohnsonThe room is dying honey and lemon rind.Soured light. My grandmother sits in her chairsweetening into the blue velvet. Domesticdeclining is the window that never opens– Read More Song In My Head: Longest Days by John Mellancamp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SipZ2G31uls&t=43s Art: Alexander Young Jackson’s The Entrance to Halifax Harbour Photo credit: tate.org.uk …
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Care Package for Thursday, Dec. 10, 2020
Poetry: To … by Rene CharYou have been my love for so many years,It makes me dizzy to think of so much hope,And my dizziness won’t be aged, or cooled;Read More Song In My Head: That Don’t Impress Me Much by Haim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_0JnoioEpY Art: Gwyther Irwin’s Red Flush Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “You can’t teach …
Care Package for Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020
Poetry: Gratitude by Jon DavisForget each slight, each head that turnedToward something more intriguing –Red flash of wing beyond the window,Read More Song In My Head: People Get Ready by The Impressions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l04yM7-BWbg Art: John Frederick Herring’s The Frugal Meal Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come …
Care Package for Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020
Poetry: Relapsing/Remitting by Carolina EbeidThe lord doctor sits on the other sideof health from me. It’s a wall come betweenflat & white &spackled in places–Read More Song In My Head: No Easy Way Back by Brooks Williams https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAkuMKoodD8 Art: Clive Gardiner’s Churchyard, Old Town, St Mary’s IV Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “A ship is safe …
Care Package for Monday, Dec. 7, 2020
Poetry: Sunshine After Cloud by Josephine D. HeardCome, “Will,” let’s be good friends again, Our wrongs let’s be forgetting,For words bring only useless pain, So wherefore then be fretting.Read More Song In My Head: Without Love by Tonio K. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9uP0KxbmDA Art: Anthony Vandyke Copley Fielding’s A View of Sussex Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: …