Episodes
101 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”
In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.So twice five miles of… Read More »101 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”
66 – Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me – The Carriage held but just Ourselves – And Immortality. We slowly… Read More »66 – Emily Dickinson, “Because I Could Not Stop for Death”
61 – Joe Wilkins, “Say”
Let’s say we have a man and a woman. Lets’ say they’re riding in some old Chevy pickup, windows down, prairie earth wheeling past. Let’s… Read More »61 – Joe Wilkins, “Say”
60 – Jill Alexander Essbaum, “Bad Friday”
The light went dim, and then demented. And that was the queasy last of it. When they finagled his body down from its hanging tree,… Read More »60 – Jill Alexander Essbaum, “Bad Friday”
59 – Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue” of The Canterbury Tales
Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, The droghte of March hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licóur Of which… Read More »59 – Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue” of The Canterbury Tales
58 – Sun Yung Shin, “Orphans of Skynet”
Orphans of Skynet by Sun Yung Shin According to my paper birthdate, May 12, in the Western zodiac system I am a Taurus. I don’t know… Read More »58 – Sun Yung Shin, “Orphans of Skynet”
52 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”
I met a traveller from an antique land,Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stoneStand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the… Read More »52 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ozymandias”
51 – Robbie Burns, “Address to a Haggis”
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,Great chieftain o the puddin’-race!Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,Painch, tripe, or thairm:Weel are ye worthy o’ a graceAs… Read More »51 – Robbie Burns, “Address to a Haggis”
50 – Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee”
It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea,That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel… Read More »50 – Edgar Allan Poe, “Annabel Lee”
48 – Sara Henning, “Through a Glass Darkly”
THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY Photographs state the innocence, the vulnerability of lives heading toward their own destruction, and this link between photography and death… Read More »48 – Sara Henning, “Through a Glass Darkly”