Poetry: The Vista by C. Dale YoungNot tenderness in the eye but the brute needto see accurately: over the ridge on a traildeep in Tennessee, the great poet looked out and sawthe vista that confederate soldiers sawas they rode over the edge rather than surrender.Read More Lyrical: I Can See For Miles by Matthew Sweet …
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Care Package for Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Poetry: Jogging with Oscar by Walt McDonaldWhen I take my dachshund jogging, boys and widows gawkand stop tossing balls or lopping limbs off shrubs. They calland point at long, pot-bellied Oscar trotting like a rocker horse,tongue wagging, dragging on grass when he hops over skateboards,Read More (https://poets.org/poem/jogging-oscar) Lyrical: Della and the Dealer by Hoyt AxtonThe …
Care Package for Sunday, June 6, 2021
Poetry: Driver Lost by Mark Van DorenRoads are flowing everywhere In the night, beneath the moon.But one of them the homing mare Is certain of; and soonRead More Lyrical: Silver Road by Sarah HarmerI’ll be way down the silver road, I’ll go/Where the moon has it lit up/Turn off your headlights and go …
Care Package for Saturday, June 5, 2021
Poetry: It Comes in Evening by Olga OrozcoAnd don’t you feel also, perhaps, a stormy sorrow in the skin of time,like a scar that opens againthere where the sky was uprooted?Read More Lyrical: Stormy Weather by Sarah HarmerOh I can’t go on/Everything I have is gone/Stormy weather https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqbwxysGXl8 Art: Colin Lanceley’s What the Thunder Said …
Care Package for Friday, June 4, 2021
Poetry: The Coming of Fox by Lucille Cliftonone evening I returnto a red foxhaunched at my door.Read More Lyrical: Sun It Rises by Fleet FoxesHold me dear/Into the night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIDAzAJ4ljE Art: Joseph Mallord William Turner’s Sun Setting Over a Lake Photo credit: tate.org.uk Quote: “A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.” – Ruth Weston …