Poetry from the Jungle Podcast
1) Alun Lewis. The Jungle.
2) Jorge Luis Borges. When Sorrow Lays Us Low.
When sorrow lays us low for a second we are saved by humble windfalls of the mindfulness or memory: the taste of a fruit, the taste of water, that face given back to us by a dream, the first jasmine o...Show More
3) Richard Blanco. For / After / Jan Beatty.
After my third shot of tequila / chased by a lime sour as my rant: fuck this-fuck that-fuck them-fuck me-fuck it all / you slashed me / same as your poems’ slashes / slash me / when you asked me: so, ...Show More
4) Poems of Death
5) Xavier Villaurrutia. Nocturne: The Angels.
You might say the streets flow sweetly through the night. The lights are dim so the secret will be kept, the secret known by the men who come and go, for they’re all in on the secret and why break it ...Show More
6) Mark Doty. Reprive, From Atlantis.
I woke in the night and thought, It was a dream, nothing has torn the future apart, we have not lived years in dread, it never happened, I dreamed it all. And then there was this sensation of terri...Show More
7) John Clare. I Am.
I am: yet what I am none cares or knows, My friends forsake me like a memory lost; I am the self-consumer of my woes, They rise and vanish in oblivious host, Like shades in love and death's oblivion l...Show More
8) Thom Gunn. The Man with Night Sweats.
I wake up cold, I who Prospered through dreams of heat Wake to their residue, Sweat, and a clinging sheet. My flesh was its own shield: Where it was gashed, it healed. I grew as I explor...Show More
9) Seamus Heaney. Digging .
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. Under my window, a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: My father, digging. I look down Till his strainin...Show More
10) Ted Hughes. King Of Carrion.
His palace is of skulls. His crown is the last splinters Of the vessel of life. His throne is the scaffold of bones, the hanged thing’s Rack and final stretcher. His robe is the black of the last b...Show More