The Poetry Show: Like a Fly With One Wing, Walking

 

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The Poetry of The Difficult Moment

 

 

"When you don't know which way to go. Your real journey has just begun." -- Wendell Berry. Keats, Jane Kenyon, Dean Young, Christian Wiman, and more

Wednesdays, 10 AM

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded Nov. 20, 2024

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Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks

by Jane Kenyon

I am the blossom pressed in a book,
found again after two hundred years. . . .

I am the maker, the lover, and the keeper....

When the young girl who starves
sits down to a table
she will sit beside me. . . .

I am food on the prisoner's plate. . . .

I am water rushing to the wellhead,
filling the pitcher until it spills. . . .

I am the patient gardener
of the dry and weedy garden. . . .

I am the stone step,
the latch, and the working hinge. . . .

I am the heart contracted by joy. . . .

the longest hair, white
before the rest. . . .

I am there in the basket of fruit
presented to the widow. . . .

I am the musk rose opening
unattended, the fern on the boggy summit. . . .

I am the one whose love
overcomes you, already with you
when you think to call my name. . . .

 

 

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The Last Stop Cafe: Commanders lose, no news

 

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Mike Tyson Still Stands

Commanders Change Name To:

 

 

Mondays 7:15 AM

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini and John Case

Sports today: Reckoning Tomorrow

This Episode Recorded Nov. 18, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Poetry Show: Veterans Day poems

 

 

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Poetry from the Foxholes: Flying Crooked

 

 

Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Marvin Bell, Brian Turner, Amelia Opie, and more ... from Europe, Vietnam, Ukraine, Gaza and Mississipppi

Broadcast Wednesdays 10 AM Eastern

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded November 13, 2024

Veterans of the Seventies

by Melvin Bell

 

His army jacket bore the white rectangle

of one who has torn off his name. He sat mute

at the round table where the trip-wire veterans

ate breakfast. They were foxhole buddies

who went stateside without leaving the war.

They had the look of men who held their breath

and now their tongues. What is to say

beyond that said by the fathers who bent lower

and lower as the war went on, spines curving

toward the ground on which sons sat sandbagged

with ammo belts enough to make fine lace

of enemy flesh and blood. Now these who survived,

who got back in cargo planes emptied at the front,

lived hiddenly in the woods behind fence wires

strung through tin cans. Better an alarm

than the constant nightmare of something moving

on its belly to make your skin crawl

with the sensory memory of foxhole living.

 

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The Last Stop Cafe: So, What’s next, Doc?

 

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The Last Stop Cafe: So, What's next, Doc?

The Yankees Could Have Won If the Scoreboard Operator Had Done His Job!!!

Hosts: Mike Cuccherini and John Case

Mike and John try to keep a lid on it. The Day Before It Happened. As it turns out everyone in the Cafe decided to leave by the Back Door. That sign that says "Warning! Abyss!!" was not a joke.

 

 

Mondays 7:30 AM

 

This Episode Recorded Nov 4, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV

 

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The Poetry Show: Doctors of Verse

 

 

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You and the Doc: Till Death Do Us Part

 

 

What the physician saw in me. What the Lobsterman saw in the sea.

Wednesdays, 10 AM

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded Nov 7, 2024

 

A Lobsterman Looks At The Sea

by Richard Berlin

His new hip healed in, we're working
on a bluff, talking doctors and health care
reform as we shove a new propane tank into place.
A shape on the surface catches his eye:
"Right whale," he says, but I can only see
endless swells rolling in from the east.
He points out the gradations of gray
and green that mark deep ledge, the tide's
shape along the islands and rocks,
the whale's glistening back suddenly in focus.
I react with the same surprise
my patients feel when I observe
what they can't see—
a sudden shift in gaze, or a crease in a cheek,
understanding how a doctor becomes
like a man who has spent sixty years
on a lobster boat, watching the world
swim fast and shining, right before his eyes.

 

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The Poetry Show: Ghosts

 

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Talk to Your Ghosts.

 

 

Emily Dickinson, Edna St Vincent Millay, Lola Haskins haunt the other side, of yourself.

Wednesdays, 10 AM

Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case

This Episode Recorded Oct 30, 2024

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Patsy Sees a Ghost

by Lola Haskins

I'm crossing the river where it narrows,
carefully, it being Sunday
and I'm past the root end of the log
when I look up,
and there's a haunt sitting
on the blossom end.
I can see trumpet vine and blackberries
through her white dress.
Gnats hang in the air.
The river runs, red-brown and deep.
The haunt sings
and it's my music, the blood song
of my heart and bones
and my skull dancing in the road.
And Chloe, she knows my name.
She says Oh Patsy, take care,
or you will surely fall
and the thick river
will pull you too to shroudy weeds
and you'll be gone,
gone as the moment you looked up
and saw the trumpet vine and
berrries, hot and ready
through my white dress,
gone as all the years since I died,
and waited here for you.

 

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