Poetry: Fox by Lucille Cliftonwhocan blame her for hunkeringinto the doorbells at night,Read More Lyrical: Ace of Spades by Eliena SiegmanThe pleasure is to play, makes no difference what you say/I don’t share your greed, the only card I need is the Ace of Spades https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coxAU_WVHos Art: John Simpson’s Head of a Man Photo credit: …
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Care Package for Tuesday, April 27, 2021
Poetry: Let Me Begin Again by Major JacksonLet me begin again as a quiet thoughtin the shape of a shell slowly examinedby a brown child on a beach at dawnRead More Lyrical: On Your Side by The Innocence MissionSome days we are not sure where we’re going/How we will arrive/Some days we don’t know where …
Care Package for Monday, April 26, 2021
Poetry: A Peacock in Spring by Joyelle McSweeneyMakes deranged loveTo the muddy hill. Shoots of green knocked sidewaysOn a factory floor. Next to the stopfloodRead More Lyrical: Leaving Eden by The Carolina Chocolate DropsAnd the mockingbird can sing/Like the crying of the dove/And I can’t tell my daugthers/All the things that I am scared of …
Care Package for Sunday, April 25, 2021
Poetry: To the Country by Rubén DaríoPrairie land, Happy days. In Royal Buenos AyresNow far, far behind are left the fire, and terrific heat.Today in thy verdant exultation all my day dreams will come to lifeAnd I shall inhale thy fragrant breath and bathe me in thy sun.Read More Lyrical: Deathly by Aimee MannNow that …
Care Package for Saturday, April 24, 2021
Poetry: Spring (Again) by Michael RyanThe birds were louder this morning,Raucous, oblivious, tweeting their teensy bird-brains out.Read More Lyrical: Wheat Kings by The Tragically HipTwenty years for nothing, well, that’s nothing new/Besides, no one’s interested in something you didn’t do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H9L0jR6WCg Art: Winslow Homer’s Flower Garden and Bungalow, Bermuda Photo credit: metmuseum.org Quote: “The animals …