Category: Pennsylvania
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From the august trees
Originally posted on some little crum creek: . Some parts of our nature we might never see. But under a rising moon, out from a waning season, an imploring eastern screech owl sounds — savor the mystery. .
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David Reads “An April Funeral in Pennsylvania,” by Jerry Wemple
Another Annoying Aside: Imagine my dismay when I found that tinkering with the dates of posts on WordPress invariably messes up outside links to them! I did not realize that some of those urls actually contained the publishing date (This one already appears not to. Yeah, I’m confused too.)! Ah well, fortunately the links do…
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David Reads “Screech Owl,” by Ted Kooser
I know it sounded strange to some of you when I said in my last post that it had been a long weekend, and I was ready for a break. But my true “weekend” doesn’t generally happen until Sunday or, as in the case of this present week, Monday. And boy, do I need it.…
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Day 12 of PoRecMo, Driving Me Up a Wall
It’s the end of day 12 for this year’s Poetry Month, and my personal recording challenge. The way my schedule is this weekend, I think I’ll just be really quick with the postings. More poetry, less commentary at least until Monday. Yeah, we’ll see how well I do with that commitment. In any case, it’s…
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Bonus Track: Marjorie Maddox reads “Clyde Peeling’s Reptileland”
Yesterday I read a poem from Marjorie Maddox’s book Weeknights at the Cathedral, and so as bonus I thought I’d bring out a favorite of mine again. I posted this originally back in October, but it’s well worth a second hearing. Because of some technical difficulties I actually spliced together her intro from the Midtown…
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Mafia Pizza and Soft Scrambled Eggs
The boys and I went out for our bi-weekly pizza Monday night. As usual we hit our favorite pizza joint over near the University. The running joke in the family is that we wish we could figure out where this pizza place orders our pizza from. They never seem to have any customers except for…
