ENVIRONMENT Poem: From Eagle's View, by David Swindell
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4m 27s
Performed by Val Cole
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GRIEF POETRY Reading: A Widow's Hand,...
Performed by Val Cole
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POEM:A Widow’s Hand
If the coast holds ruin
like a pint pouring in,
then this deep dorcha tide
must churn its ruby-black heave
until fragile foam flickers
below giant hogweeds.And if cliffs are the corpses
the sea keeps beating
upon that sable crag,
then the salt... -
COMEDY Poetry Reading: Who Poops Up a...
Performed by Val Cole:
POETRY Reading:
Who Poops Up a Tree?
There’s a neighbor dog I do not know
But for the trail he leaves.
It’s something I have never seen
A mutt who poops up trees.A mystery, really, how it starts
A habit such as that.
I imagine that he stopped to fart
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ENVIRONMENTAL Poem: Two Hundred Yards...
Performed by Val Cole
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POEM:We lived two hundred yards from the Chesapeake Bay,
close enough to hear it breathing in the dark,
close enough that salt was in our blood
before we ever knew the word for it.
Spring came and we ran barefoot over cold sand.
Summer turned the bay to hammered go...
