Weekly Edition #13
Birth-Day by Lucille Clifton today we are possible.
the morning, green and laundry-sweet,
opens itself and we enter
blind and mewling.
everything waits for us:
the snow kingdom
sparkling and silent
in its glacial cap,
the cane fields
shining and sweet
in the sun-drenched south.
as the day arrives
with all its clumsy blessings
what we will become
waits in us like an ache.
Art by Dorian Vallejo
Other poems I read this week:
"Tonight, as you undress, I watch your wondrous
flesh that’s swelled again, the way a river swells
when the ice relents. Sweet relief
just to regard the sheaves of your hips,
your boundless breasts and marshy belly.
I adore the acreage
of your thighs and praise the promising
planets of your ass."
"I have to tell you,
there are times when
the sun strikes me
like a gong,
and I remember everything,
even your ears."
-I have to tell you by Dorothea Grossman
"Sit –
you must be tired
of walking,
of losing yourself
this way:
a bronzed rib
of exhaustion
thinned out
against the dark.
Sit –
there are still things
to believe in;
like civilizations
and birthing
and love."
-Ode to the Walking Woman by Tishani Doshi
"He tells her that the earth is flat —
He knows the facts, and that is that.
In altercations fierce and long
She tries her best to prove him wrong.
But he has learned to argue well.
He calls her arguments unsound
And often asks her not to yell.
She cannot win. He stands his ground.
The planet goes on being round."
-Differences of Opinion by Wendy Cope
Recommended Listening:
Annie's Song - John Denver I'll Never Find Another You - Julia Jacklin (The Seekers Cover) + the original version Kat mar khap gaye - Aahvaan Destroyer - Panama Manami Ito Performs a Violin Solo With a Customized Prosthetic Bow Arm
Links of the Week:
Clair de lune (Debussy): Alexandre Tharaud, Yoann Bourgeois - piano & dance (I want to fly after watching this :) )
The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks, a Feature-Length Journey Into the Mind of the Famed Neurologist
Animals interrupting wildlife photographers
Stop Motion Films by Kirsten Lepore and Nix + Gerber Produced Entirely in the Space of a Car Trunk
Interview: Harpist Mary Lattimore + check out all the new posts on the website