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Yondercast 032 – Poetry is Dangerous!
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/yondercast/~3/idLHqAlWiMw/yondercast032.mp3
Warning to New Listeners:
Some of you don’t like to be touched, even by a drop of rain.
Poems, stories and songs are a way of touching and being touched.
Therefore, some of you might want to leave. Nobody will laugh at you if you do.
Poems:
Outside, Inside by Daniele Rossi
For Better or For Worth by Phatty Matty
Night Shift [...]
that Dark
I don’t read a ton of poetry. I’ve got a nice-looking volume of selected Emily Dickinson poems, just sitting there. I thought I should start opening it up occasionally . . . and today I found a thought-provoking poem:
The feet of people walking home
With gayer sandals go -
The crocus – till she rises -
The vassal [...]
The Glee of a Porpoise Then
I’m rereading The Sword in the Stone, T.H. White’s magical fantasy about the young King Arthur. Here’s a wonderful quotation from Chapter Five. (The Wart is King Arthur’s childhood nickname.)
The Wart did not know what Merlyn was talking about, but he liked him to talk. He did not like the grown-ups who talked down to [...]
Reading My Book Aloud 003
Recorded this three weeks ago, finally posting it. This is the audio recording of the next five poems from my book, desiring to touch sky. (The book is available here as a free PDF.)
Listen here: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/yondercast/~3/522604939/rmba003.mp3
11. Friends in Days
12. Unbeknownst (Zeppelin Girl)
13. Envy
14. Later
15. The Mother Ship
Moping About What Comes Next
I’m reading Eastern Standard Tribe by Cory Doctorow. It’s this satisfyingly weird book about economic warfare waged among time zone tribes. It talks a lot about sleep deprivation, social networking and chat rooms, so it’s a great read for someone from my generation. Here’s a quotation that resonated with me:
I was too smart [...]
Can of Worms
A disconnected, rambling poem inspired by these lines from The Tragically Hip’s song, Grace, Too:
“I come from downtown
Born ready for you
Armed with will and determination
and grace, too”
I’m dancing as hard as I can,
and grace has nothing to do with it.
Grace flew out the window in 1992,
the year I turned thirteen,
and I ain’t been the same
since [...]
There Are Sardines About Somewhere In The Neighbourhood
In Chapter Five of Wind in the Willows, Rat says to Mole:
‘Why, only just now I saw a sardine-opener on the kitchen dresser, quite distinctly; and everybody knows that means there are sardines about somewhere in the neighbourhood.’
That’s my kind of logic. Or illogic. Whatever.
Rat really shines in this chapter, both as a good friend [...]
Mole On Escapism
In Chapter Four of Wind in the Willows, Mole admires Badger’s underground home:
. . . he took the opportunity to tell Badger how comfortable and home-like it all felt to him. ‘Once well underground,’ he said, ‘you know exactly where you are. Nothing can happen to you, and nothing can get at you. You’re entirely [...]
It Would Take Too Long
Another quotation from Wind in the Willows, this one from Chapter Four. This is after Mole got lost in the dreaded Wild Wood, and was found by Rat. Now Mole and Rat are safe at Badger’s underground home, eating and talking:
. . . it was that regrettable sort of conversation that results from talking with [...]
Ratty and the Unimpressed Ducks
In Chapter Two of Wind in the Willows, Ratty makes up a silly song about some ducks he is watching. I like how the ducks respond:
Why can’t fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like, instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time [...]