Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Spring Playlist


Air………………...…..…High School Lover
Heartless Bastards….The Arrow Killed the Beast
CocoRosie………..…..R.I.P. Burn Face
Chelsea Wolfe…….....Flatlands
Sharon Van Etten……………..…Serpents
Active Child………….Johnny Belinda
Coer De Pirate…......You Know I’m No Good (Amy Winehouse Cover)
Joni Mitchell……….....Cactus Tree
Björk…………...…....….Jóga
Aloe Blacc………..…...Wake Me Up
Oliver Tank…………..Past Present Future
Neko Case…………..This Tornado Loves You

Poetry Wednesday

Mutts

We were pacing,
cross-eyed from the bars of our cage as we looked
at the animals,
telling them from a distance
That we loved them terribly,
truly.

For you, the matted and white-whiskered
were the dearest,
but I felt for the wooly giants, nose-at-kneecap-high,
crashing through these shallows.

We found ourselves lowered,
bowed by cravings edge-by-edge with need.
The waiting would astound us, but
(the waiting has not astounded us yet!)


Annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd something not-mine that I love:

Losing Track
by Denise Levertov

Long after you have swung back
away from me 
I think you are still with me: 

you come in close to the shore 
on the tide 
and nudge me awake the way 

a boat adrift nudges the pier: 
am I a pier 
half-in half-out of the water? 

and in the pleasure of that communion 
I lose track, 
the moon I watch goes down, the 

tide swings you away before 
I know I’m 
alone again long since, 

mud sucking at gray and black 
timbers of me, 
a light growth of green dreams drying.