Words in the Air

Untitled [Do you still remember: falling stars] Do you still remember: falling stars, how they leapt slantwise through the sky like horses over suddenly held-out hurdles of our wishes—did we have so many?— for stars, innumerable, leapt everywhere; almost every gaze upward became wedded to the swift hazard of their play, and our heart felt like a single thing beneath that vast disintegration of the...

Production and Sound Design By Kevin Seaman "the distant steps" By Cesar Vallejo   my father sleeps. his august frontispiece   portrays a gentle heart; it is now so placid...   if there's something bitter, should be me. .   there is solitude in our home; we pray;   there is no buzz today to share.   my father awakes, as it resounds the Egypt's gap, the farewell with no meaning. .   now it is so cl...

Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman   The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski your life is your life don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, someti...

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Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman   Shadwell Stair by Wilfred Owen   I am the ghost of Shadwell Stair.       Along the wharves by the water-house,       And through the cavernous slaughter-house, I am the shadow that walks there.     Yet I have flesh both firm and cool,       And eyes tumultuous as the gems       Of moons and lamps in the full Thames When dusk sails wavering down the poo...

Production, Composition and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman The Dance by Wendell Berry I would have each couple turn, join and unjoin, be lost in the greater turning of other couples, woven in the circle of a dance, the song of long time flowing over them, so they may return, turn again in to themselves out of desire greater than their own, belonging to all, to each, to the dance, and to the song tha...

Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman   THE HOLLOW MEN by T. S. Eliot Mistah Kurtz-he dead. A penny for the Old Guy We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when  We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar  Shape without form shade without colour...

Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman   "This living hand, now warm and capable" By John Keats This living hand, now warm and capable Of earnest grasping, would, if it were cold And in the icy silence of the tomb, So haunt thy days and chill thy dreaming nights That thou would wish thine own heart dry of blood So in my veins red life might stream again, And thou be conscience-calm’d–see here...

Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman   The Haunted Palace By Edgar Allan Poe   In the greenest of our valleys By good angels tenanted, Once a fair and stately palace - Radiant palace - reared its head. In the monarch Thought's dominion - It stood there! Never seraph spread a pinion Over fabric half so fair!     Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow, (This - all th...

Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman The Listeners By Walter De La Mere ‘Is there anybody there?’ said the Traveller, Knocking on the moonlit door; And his horse in the silence champed the grasses Of the forest’s ferny floor: And a bird flew up out of the turret, Above the Traveller’s head: And he smote upon the door again a second time; ‘Is there anybody there?’ he said. But no one descend...

Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman   October BY ROBERT FROST O hushed October morning mild,   Thy leaves have ripened to the fall;   Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild,   Should waste them all.   The crows above the forest call;   Tomorrow they may form and go.   O hushed October morning mild,   Begin the hours of this day slow.   Make the day seem to us less brief.   Hearts not averse to bei...

Production and Sound Design By Kevin Seaman The Man-Moth” (written 1935, published 1936) _Man-Moth: Newspaper misprint for “mammoth.” Here, above, cracks in the buildings are filled with battered moonlight. The whole shadow of Man is only as big as his hat. It lies at his feet like a circle for a doll to stand on, and he makes an inverted pin, the point magnetized to the moon. He does not see the...

Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman       The Auroras of Autumn Canto 5-10 V The mother invites humanity to her house And table. The father fetches tellers of tales And musicians who mute much, muse much, on the tales. The father fetches negresses to dance, Among the children, like curious ripenesses Of pattern in the dance's ripening. For these the musicians make insidious tones, Clawing...

Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman       The Auroras of Autumn by Wallace Stevens I This is where the serpent lives, the bodiless. His head is air. Beneath his tip at night Eyes open and fix on us in every sky. Or is this another wriggling out of the egg, Another image at the end of the cave, Another bodiless for the body's slough? This is where the serpent lives. This is his nest, These...

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Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman Nathan Hoks is the author of two books of poetry, Reveilles and The Narrow Circle, which was a winner of the 2012 National Poetry Series and published by Penguin. His translations, poems, and critical writings have appeared in journals such as The Colorado Review, jubilat, Crazyhorse, Lit, Circumference, Octopus Magazine, and Verse. A graduate of the Iow...

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Production and Sound Design By Kevin Seaman Poems included: Robinson, Robinson at Home, Relating to Robinson   Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman   Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman   Production and Sound Design by Kevin Seaman

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