“They stand on stage like individually / wrapped, Halloween Kit-Kats and Hershey’s bars, / fun-size adults in rayon packaging.”
Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com
Tag: poems
Homecoming (poem): Ep38
Soldiers return to America and face home in this poem and companion flash fiction.
Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com
Nesting, The Insufficiency of Pillows (poetry): Ep32
“She / nested in / an attic intake vent,” “Last night, I auditioned / seven pillows to play / the part of you.”
“Nesting” was originally published by Heron Tree.
Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com.
Four Divorce Poems (poetry): Ep25
Four poems on divorce and separation.
Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com.
Halftime Show / David (poems): Ep16
“I respect their art, their years of / gymnastics and dance classes” / “Fifth grade. David Polack called. / He had Playboys ”
Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com
Rodeo / Summer 1984 (poems) : Ep12
“The rodeo will return this summer / and I will think about entering that world…” / “They remember the summer / of nineteen eighty-four”
Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com
Accords (poem): Ep 7
“August burns in the room, / but I am ice, / words firm, / precise, / clear, and cool.”
Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com
Calibrating Beauty (poem): Ep 6
“1. Until third grade when Ms Salonga gave me a poster / of Jaclyn Smith, one of Charlie’s Angels, I believed my mom— / brunette, tall, and five years younger than Kelly Garrett—”
Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com
Fire: Summer 2015 (poem): Ep 2
“The room is quiet / apart from the A/C, / which would not be on / if I could open the windows….”
Theme music is “Holiday Gift” by Kai Engel, via Creative Commons. For artist information, see http://www.kai-engel.com.
