Wednesday, January 27, 2016

KBYD January 27, 2016



Playlist:

DNCN - No Pressure At All
Autumn Owls - Borrowed Suit
Stick Figure - In This Love
Jez Kerr - Insight (Joy Division Cover)
The Love Junkies - Oxymoron
The Brutal Poodles - Forces
Happier Than Us - Sundance
Poem: A Spell Before Winter by Howard Nemerov
Bouts - Allies
Beard of Wolves - Come With Me
Garden of Elks - I Hid Inside
The Woodentops - Get It On
Chuman - What Instrument Do You Play
The Softies - The Best Days

Poem:

A Spell Before Winter
by Howard Nemerov

After the red leaf and the gold have gone,
Brought down by the wind, then by hammering rain
Bruised and discolored, when October's flame
Goes blue to guttering in the cusp, this land
Sinks deeper into silence, darker into shade.
There is a knowledge in the look of things,
The old hills hunch before the north wind blows.

Now I can see certain simplicities
In the darkening rust and tarnish of the time,
And say over the certain simplicities,
The running water and the standing stone,
The yellow haze of the willow and the black
Smoke of the elm, the silver, silent light
Where suddenly, readying toward nightfall,
The sumac's candelabrum darkly flames.
And I speak to you now with the land's voice,
It is the cold, wild land that says to you
A knowledge glimmers in the sleep of things:
The old hills hunch before the north wind blows.

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