Contemporary, by Steve Braff

Contemporary

by Steve Braff

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1.	“Adams ‘s Task” by John Hollander- read 01:46	lyrics	buy track
Adam's Task And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field ... GEN. 2:20 Thou, paw-paw-paw; thou, glurd; thou, spotted Glurd; thou, whitestap, lurching through The high-grown brush; thou, pliant-footed, Implex; thou, awagabu. Every burrower, each flier Came for the name he had to give: Gay, first work, ever to be prior, Not yet sunk to primitive. Thou, verdle; thou, McFleery’s pomma; Thou; thou; thou—three types of grawl; Thou, flisket; thou, kabasch; thou, comma- Eared mashawk; thou, all; thou, all. Were, in a fire of becoming, Laboring to be burned away, Then work, half-measuring, half-humming, Would be as serious as play. Thou, pambler; thou, rivarn; thou, greater Wherret, and thou, lesser one; Thou, sproal; thou, zant; thou, lily-eater. Naming’s over. Day is done.
2.	“Freeway 280” by Lorna Dee Cervantes- read 02:15	info	buy track
3.	“The Colonel” by Carolyn Forche- read 03:22	info	buy track
4.	“To a Daughter Leaving Home” by Linda Pastan- read 01:07	info	buy track
5.	“My Mother” by Robert Mezey- read 02:42	info	buy track
6.	'Bone Boy' by Pamela Davis- reading 01:45	info	buy track
7.	'The Female Line' by Pamela Davis, reading 01:30	info	buy track
8.	‘Nuns in Rome’ by David Starkey- reading 01:23	info	buy track
9.	‘The Journey’ by David Whyte- reading 01:31	info	buy track
10.	‘The Winter of Listening’ by David Whyte- reading 01:40	info	buy track
11.	Dan Gerber, poet, poem, poetry, SteveBraff, reading, spokenword - ‘First Light’ by Dan Gerber- reading 00:55	info	buy track
12.	‘Lois Frank at the Lost Horse Mine, Joshua Tree, California’ by Iris Cushing- reading 03:49	info	buy track
13.	“Sweet Respite” by Michael Simpson 01:33	lyrics	buy track
SWEET RESPITE by Michael Simpson Hey you out there across that vast and distance space, If I could just for a moment , a split second , take that sadness from your face, dress you up in sparkling spring water and cloth made of sweet respite, put the sleep back in your dreams, remove the trouble from your night , take you gallivanting where even poets fear to dare , bathe your eyes in lilac light , rub some sweet music in your hair , illustrate what you mean to me in verse made of liquid air , and that place inside my mind where the morning meets the madness , I might even take you there .
14.	“What We Can” by Teresa McNeil MacLean” –read 01:51	info	buy track
15.	‘Nasturtiums’ by Virginia Barrett- reading 01:31	info	buy track
16.	‘Reasonably Priced Accommodation’ by Michael Simpson- reading 04:43	info	buy track
17.	‘Suitcase’ by Tobi Cogswell- reading 01:37	info	buy track
18.	'Sneakers' by Joseph Madison, reading 00:45	info	buy track
19.	'The Big Dipper' by David Thane Cornell, reading 01:28	info	buy track