If you know this podcast, LYRIC LIFE, you know I love grit in all its poetic forms. This poem, by the well-known B. H. Fairchild, is a plainsong statement about grit--or more like, about the ambivalence of grit.

How do you escape the world you're in? Is it important to shine a light on it? And what sort of light? Sunlight? Or manufactured light? Because for a poet, it's all manufactured light. And what if that's not enough.

Join me, Mark Scarbrough, as I explore this gorgeously evocative, carefully constructed poem about shifting time, the pull of false hopes, and the truth about light. It can only get you so far.