Tonight, we're taking a walk through a collection of romantic poems and prose passages. As your footsteps echo through the dark, freshly-painted halls, you encounter portraits of sound, of thoughts, of memories and emotions. This is a handful of shorter works I've written over the last few months, stray shreds of dreams for you to wander through.

The time stamps below will take you directly to each piece:

5:10 You Should Know (Poem)

8:00 California (Prose)

10:57 Sunday Morning (Poem)

12:06 Spider (Prose)

14:34 That Look (Poem)

15:56 The Wedding Poem (Poem)

18:00 Ghost Story (Prose)

22:08 Love Poem #47 (Poem)

25:14 Sheena (Prose)

The track featured in this episode's introduction, "Pollie Soft," was created by summonhue and is available in the public domain under the CC0 license.

All sound effects and music that appear in this episode were sourced from CC0 tracks available on Freesound.

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