Whoa! What’s happened to your knees? You are dripping with mud! There’s grass all over you!Â
Well, yeah, I was listening to The Poetry Slow Down,Â
a program discussing amazing poetry of what we see when we get down with
the grass! When we see close-up, and behold our earth . . .Â
Gentle listeners, this too can be you. Listen on!Â
And . . . enjoy.
Stay tuned for the special 9-11 show September 11, 2011: the role of poets
in helping us understand and come to terms with what Emily Dickinson calls
“Great Pain.” We’ll have poems about the kind of courage to hurl oneself into
a burning tower, rage against loss, appeals to love each other–and some of these
poems date back, oh, 3000 and more years . . . . Can we live without poetry?
We seem never to have been without it, as long as we have walked on earth.
And it is more important than ever to be inspired to look at this earth–and each
other–up close. Our lives depend on it. More anon, Dr. B
