#429 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Saturday August 13)
Good morning,
Happy Saturday!
POETRY
Today’s poetry comes from Bradley Taybach-Bank. This is his favorite poem from his favorite poet:
Moss-Gathering
By Theodore Roethke
To loosen with all ten fingers held wide and limber
And lift up a patch, dark-green, the kind for lining cemetery baskets,
Thick and cushiony, like an old-fashioned doormat,
The crumbling small hollow sticks on the underside mixed with roots,
And wintergreen berries and leaves still stuck to the top, —
That was moss-gathering.
But something always went out of me when I dug loose those carpets
Of green, or plunged to my elbows in the spongy yellowish moss of the marshes:
And afterwards I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,
As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;
Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,
By pulling off flesh from the living planet;
As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.
MUSIC
Today, two songs from icons performing together:
Here are Paul McCartney and Ringo collaborating on “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,” during Paul’s Dodger Stadium concert:
And the classic “City of New Orleans,” featuring the “super-group,” The Highwaymen:
Happy weekend!
Glenn
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