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This time I talk about Jane Hirshfield's poem Burlap sack, includes authentic page turning noises! Read up a little on Jane here.

Download I discuss Walt Whitman's poem "When I Heard at the Close of Day". Thanks for Callie for the suggestion! Here is his wiki page.

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I get philosophical about journeys this week, reading CP Cavafy's poem Ithica. You can read it in the original Greek or in translation here

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Hats off to you, Mr e.e. cummings!

here's the text on a soppy wedding site!

Here is one of his other poems, Grasshopper (possibly not appropriate for a wedding reading)

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Thank you for listening. Here are Candlestick Press and here is my friend Thom

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 Here is the poem featured:

Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts.

Nor the woman in the ambulance

Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly -- 

A gift, a love gift

Utterly unasked for

By a sky

Palely and flamily

Igniting its carbon monoxides, by eyes

Dulled to a halt under bowlers.

 O my God, what am I

That these late mouths should cry open

In a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers.