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Poetry and Music
Here and There
Dec 26th
Last week our power was out for 72 hours, so I wrote a new song. Today I made a rough recording of it. Right-mouse click on the link below to Save As and have a listen. (It’s best with good speakers, not laptop speakers. I’m not dissing your laptop speakers. I’m just saying, it isn’t [...]
Some Recent Poetry
Nov 18th
Here are a few poems–two from a few weeks ago, another two I wrote tonight.
What There Is
Comfort, Comfort
Faith in Progress
Lullaby in the First Person
The Change
Nov 10th
“So Says the Whipoorwill” – by Richard Shindell
The change could happen anyday
So says the whippoorwill
She hangs around for the seeds I leave
Out on the windowsill
“Be-free-you-fool, be-free-you-fool”
She sings all afternoon
Then, as if to show me how it’s done,
She leaps into the blue
The change could happen anyday
Or so say all the guards
In the prison I have built [...]
