Poetry: Eating the Cookies by Jane KenyonThe cousins from Maine, knowingabout her diverticulitis, let out the nuts,so the cookies weren’t entirely to my taste,but they were good enough; yes, good enough.Read More Song In My Head: Speculator by Strangefolk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9r8gtRqC8g Art: Marie-Charles-Isidore Choiselat’s [Landscape with Cottage] Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “If I fall, I’ll fall …
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Care Package for Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2021
Poetry: A Letter Comes and Visits Me by Giannina BraschiA letter comes and visits me. Puts its legs up in the living room. Wandersabout speechless. Suddenly it explodes and another shape appears.Read More Song In My Head: Godless by Dandy Warhols https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LduipA_XUJ8 Art: Enthroned Virgin and Child Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: …
Care Package for Monday, Jan. 11, 2021
Poetry: Undoing by Khadijah QueenIn winter traffic, fog of middayshoves toward our machines – snow eclipsesthe mountainscapesRead More Song In My Head: Anodyne by Uncle Tupelo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZtdUkqhSgk Art: Winslow Homer’s Inside the Bar Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “Hate is not the opposite of love. Apathy is.“ – Rollo May Recipe: Retro Strawberries-and-Cream Pretzel Tart Photo …
Care Package for Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021
Poetry: A Tempest in a Teacup by A. Van JordanProsperoAssume, just for a moment,I am denied a jobin the factory of my dreamsRead More Song In My Head: Thieves In the Night by Black Star https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JW4Tm5wWW34 Art: Thomas Eakins’s The Artist’s Wife and His Setter Dog Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “You don’t have to burn …
Care Package for Saturday, Jan. 9, 2021
Poetry: Invitation to Love by Paul Laurence DunbarCome when the nights are bright with stars Or when the moon is mellow;Come when the sun his golden bars Drops on the hay-field yellow.Read More Song In My Head: Boots of Spanish Leather by The Lumineers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T67QML0eHOs Art: Henri-Edmond Cross’s Landscape with Stars Photo credit: …
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