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Episodes
- The White Mans Burden
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Sat, 6 Sep 2008 05:00:00 EDT
The White Mans Burden by Pablo Neruda "Lost in the forest, I broke off a dark twig and lifted its whisper to my thirsty lips: maybe it was the voice of the rain crying, a cracked bell, or a torn heart"... - Argument (1mb)
Fri, 5 Sep 2008 05:00:00 EDT
Argument by Elizabeth Bishop "Days that cannot bring you near or will not, Distance trying to appear something more obstinate, argue argue argue with me endlessly neither proving you less wanted nor less dear"... - The Watcher (1mb)
Thu, 4 Sep 2008 05:00:00 EDT
The Watcher by Rudyard Kipling "Put forth to watch, unschooled, alone, 'Twixt hostile earth and sky; The mottled lizard 'neath the stone Is wiser here than I"... - Strings in the Earth and Air (1mb)
Wed, 3 Sep 2008 05:00:00 EDT
Strings in the Earth and Air by James Joyce Strings in the earth and air Make music sweet; Strings by the river where The willows meet"... - From a Survivor (1mb)
Tue, 2 Sep 2008 05:00:00 EDT
From a Survivor by Adrienne Rich "The pact that we made was the ordinary pact of men & women in those days I don't know who we thought we were that our personalities could resist the failures of the race"... - Childhood (1mb)
Mon, 1 Sep 2008 05:00:00 EDT
Childhood by George William Russell "How I could see through and through you! So unconscious, tender, kind, More than ever was known to you Of the pure ways of your mind."... - Base Words Are Uttered (1mb)
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT
Base Words Are Uttered by W. H. Auden "Base words are uttered only by the base And can for such at once be understood, But noble platitudes:--ah, there's a case Where the most careful scrutiny is needed To tell a voice that's genuinely good From one that's base but merely has succeeded." - A Home Song (1mb)
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT
A Home Song by Henry Van Dyke "I read within a poet's book A word that starred the page: "Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage!" - Where's Madge then (1mb)
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT
Where's Madge then by E. E. Cummings "Where's Madge then, Madge and her men? buried with Alice in her hair, (but if you ask the rain he'll not tell where.)" - Is/Not (1mb)
Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT
Is/Not by Margaret Atwood "Love is not a profession genteel or otherwise sex is not dentistry the slick filling of aches and cavities" - Lineage (1mb)
Wed, 27 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT
Lineage by Ted Hughes "In the beginning was Scream Who begat Blood Who begat Eye Who begat Fear Who begat Wing Who begat Bone Who begat Granite Who begat Violet Who begat Guitar Who begat Sweat Who begat Adam Who begat Mary Who begat God Who begat Nothing Who begat Never Never Never Never Who begat Crow Screaming for Blood Grubs, crusts Anything Trembling featherless elbows in the nest's filth" - Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters (1mb)
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT
Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters By Allen Ginsberg "Pigeons shake their wings on the copper church roof out my window across the street, a bird perched on the cross surveys the city's blue-grey clouds. Larry Rivers 'll come at 10 AM and take my picture. I'm taking your picture, pigeons. I'm writing you down, Dawn. I'm immortalizing your exhaust, Avenue A bus. O Thought, now you'll have to think the same thing forever!" - Invention (1mb)
Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT
Invention by Billy Collins "Tonight the moon is a cracker, with a bite out of it floating in the night, and in a week or so according to the calendar it will probably look like a silver football" - Sea Longing (1mb)
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT
Sea Longing by Sara Teasdale "A thousand miles beyond this sun-steeped wall Somewhere the waves creep cool along the sand, The ebbing tide forsakes the listless land With the old murmur, long and musical; The windy waves mount up and curve and fall"... - To Waken An Old Lady (1mb)
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT
To Waken An Old Lady by William Carlos Williams "Old age is a flight of small cheeping birds skimming bare trees above a snow glaze. Gaining and failing they are buffeted by a dark wind"... - Your Feet (1mb)
Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT
Your Feet by Pablo Neruda "When I cannot look at your face I look at your feet. Your feet of arched bone, your hard little feet. I know that they support you, and that your sweet weight rises upon them"... - Daybreak in Alabama (1mb)
Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT
Daybreak in Alabama by Langston Hughes "When I get to be a composer I'm gonna write me some music about Daybreak in Alabama And I'm gonna put the purtiest songs in it Rising out of the ground like a swamp mist And falling out of heaven like soft dew"... - Never The Time And The Place (1mb)
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT
Never The Time And The Place by Robert Browning "Never the time and the place And the loved one all together! This path--how soft to pace! This May -- what magic weather"... - All Which isn't Singing is Mere Talking (1mb)
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT
All Which isn't Singing is Mere Talking by E.E. Cummings "All which isn't singing is mere talking and all talking's talking to oneself (whether that oneself be sought or seeking master or disciple sheep or wolf)"... - Habitation (1mb)
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 05:00:00 EDT
Habitation by Margaret Atwood "Marriage is not a house or even a tent it is before that, and colder: The edge of the forest, the edge of the desert"...
