Half-Packed (a podcast update)

[crankyisgood]

Try me, or rather, try the NewsHour podcast, or just the NewsHour Art Beat blog.

Not only is it the news, but it has brought poetry back into my daily life, and connects me to other arts--and that makes me want to go connect with art in person.

Rose Hips
By Sean Norton

Due to the late
March freeze and pale sun--flat as a plate--
the clumps of wet snow everywhere, the
midnight falling of things
one hundred days cannot erase,
this deep night with its absence & God

hardly feels deep all of a sudden.
The lens in and out of focus.
Good lookin' right? I didn't mean
to scare you with the sweet potato.

I am held tighter than the needles
of a pine. And I am held out to the soft
flesh of things, lowly & protected.

I have been mad longer with love
than I have been alive.

-from the NewsHour Art Beat blog. Go over and listen to it first (33 seconds) then come back and read it.

It might help that I've had very little TV time lately; this is technically a TV show (and from my station) but I like the quiet calm.

Now back to packing. House photos soon.