Nancy Bodily's blog

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Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … and today gone, gone, gone

1) Gone, Gone, Gone, Allison Krauss and Robert Plant 3:33
2) Winter’s Come and Gone, Gillian Welch 2:15
3) Gone Again, Indigo Girls 3:28

LEAVING
By Deborah Pope
I was waiting for you
at the end of the long
gravel road that wound
through the woods,
the house barely visible
back in the trees,
two windows lit
and balancing
November’s early dark.
Walking out, I had watched
a sky turning from bone
to ash to black.
I had money and night
things stuffed in my bag,
I hoped you would see me
in the headlights.
A soft rain began.
It fell on the shoulders
of my upturned coat,
wet my face, my hair,
I could hear it falling
through the tough, hard
oaks and beeches,
the late autumn leaves
still stubborn on the trees,
sounding like birdshot,
or grains of sand
steadily, finely pouring.
And I thought suddenly
how I wanted to forget you,
forget everything,
that moment
go utterly blank,
so that I could
come back
and remember it
all from the start
to that waiting,
alone in the fresh,
cold night
and the rain
ticking, ticking.

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … and today because I had to adapt to certain electronic situations that swirled out of my control this show is about happy accidents, finding songs I didn’t know I had, buried deep in the external hard drive

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1) Love Reign o’er Me, The Who 5:48
2) Shut Up And Let Me Go, The Ting Tings 2:52
3) Groove Me, Terrance Simien 3:11

Accidents
by Marcia Popp
i broke a vase at my great-grandfather's house when i was five here come sit on my lap
he said don't feel bad about that vase i didn't like it anyway you helped me get rid of it
I knew better but let him comfort me while i felt secretly bad inside did you know that my
own mother said i was her worst boy no i said that can't be true oh yes he said and she was
right i made accidents happen all the time i didn't really mean to do bad things they just
came upon me when i wasn't paying attention when i was five my brother and i chased the
goose in the barnyard until it fell over dead we propped her up in the fence so she would
appear to be interested in the grass on the other side
what happened my father noticed

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Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … and today for friends and loved ones who are taking control of their lives and for the beautiful 99 percent holding space in our cities, with handmade signs that speak the truth. This is a hope for recovery.

1) Mr. Banker, Lynyrd Skynyrd 5:22
2) Postcards From Hell, The Wood Brothers 4:41

Bankruptcy Hearing
By Dana Bisignani

They have us corralled
in the basement of the courthouse.
One desk and a row of folding chairs—
just like first grade, our desks facing Teacher
in neat little rows.

Upstairs,
wooden benches like pews and red
carpet reserved for those who’ve held out
the longest. No creditors have come to claim us
today. We’re small-time.

This guy from the graveyard shift
stares at his steel-toed boots, nervous hands
in his lap. None of us look each other
in the eye. We steal quick looks—how did you
get here. . .

chemo bills, a gambling addiction,
a summer spent unemployed and too many
cash advances to pay the rent.
We examine the pipes that hang
from the ceiling, the scratched tiles on the floor,

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … and today the beautiful journey of steady love.

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1) Stick With Me Baby, Robert Plant and Allison Krauss 2:51
2) Somebody Loved, The Weepies 2:41
3) Old Pine, Ben Howard 4:18

Continuum: a Love Poem
By Maxine Kumin

going for grapes with
ladder and pail in
the first slashing rain
of September rain
steeping the dust
in a joyous squelch the sky
standing up like steam
from a kettle of grapes
at the boil wild fox grapes
wickedly high tangled in must
of cobweb and bug spit
going for grapes year
after year we two with
ladder and pail stained
with the rain of grapes
our private language

4) 1952 Vincent Black Lightning, Reckless Kelly 5:30
5) Fidelity, JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys 4:20
6) Do Right Woman, Do Right Man, The Commitments 3:17

Love Poem
by Paul Zimmer

In southern France live two old horses,
High in the foothills, not even French,
But English, retired steeplechasers
Brought across to accept an old age
Of ambling together in the Pyrenees.
At times they whinny and kick
At one another with impatience,

Today's show was gobbled up by the computer, so it's split in two files and isn't really the whole show. But there is a hint of what I was shooting for. Bummer, but hey it's a no bad news day. Hope to see everyone on Saturday night!

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1) One Voice, The Wailin Jennys 3:24
2) Take It From Me, The Weepies 3:53
3) Listen To The Radio, Nanci Griffith 3:50

This is about music, about people, your neighbors, heard here on KDRT, 95.7 community radio. No East Coast bad news machines here, just music and local perspectives and more music, and people who volunteer their time to share their voices. This is about celebrating something so radically different and simple, this is good news radio, this is the voice of freedom and we here at Davis Media Access protect that freedom and we have a darned good time doing it.

4) No Bad News, Patti Griffin 4:03
5) Subterranean Homesick Blues, Various Artists 3:47
6) Rock Away Blind, Lindsey Buckingham 3:56

Letter to Pablo
by Nancy Bodily

Who then to teach you the delicacy of flowers
or listen with a conch to nations of oceans
when death, the thief, stole your mother

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Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … and let’s jump in

1) Swimming Pools, Thao 2:08
2) Swimming in your ocean, Crash Test Dummies 3:50
3) Janglin, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros 3:50

"Archaic Torso of Apollo"
by Rainer Maria Rilke
translated by Stephen Mitchell
We cannot know his legendary head
with eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torso
is still suffused with brilliance from inside,
like a lamp, in which his gaze, now turned to low,

gleams in all its power. Otherwise
the curved breast could not dazzle you so, nor could
a smile run through the placid hips and thighs
to that dark center where procreation flared.

Otherwise this stone would seem defaced
beneath the translucent cascade of the shoulders
and would not glisten like a wild beast's fur:

would not, from all the borders of itself,
burst like a star: for here there is no place
that does not see you. You must change your life.

4) Convince Me, Lucinda Williams 5:46
5) Mama Told Me Not To Come, Three Dog Night 3:20
6) Searching, Cecily Raine 5:42

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Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … and today a celebration of the desert

1) Horseback in my Dreams, Kelly Joe Phelps 4:21
2) One Morning, Gillian Welch 2:42

The readings today come from the book Desert Solitaire, A Season in the Wilderness; A celebration of the beauty of living in a harsh and hostile land by Edward Abbey

If a man knew enough he could write a whole book about the juniper tree. Not juniper trees in general, but that one particular juniper tree which grows from a ledge of naked sandstone near the old entrance to Arches National Monument

3) Trees, T Nile 4:46

When we think of rock we usually think of stones, broken rock, buried under soil and plant life, but here all is exposed and naked, dominated by the monolithic formations of sandstone, which stand above the surface of the ground and extend for miles, sometimes level sometimes tilted or warped by pressures from below, carved by erosion and weathering into an intricate maze of glens, grottoes, fissures, passageways and deep narrow canyons.

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … and today for America

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1) America, Simon and Garfunkel 3:33
2) America the Beautiful, Keb Mo 3:35

I Hear America Singing
By Walt Whitman 1819–1892 Walt Whitman
I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,
Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,
The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,
The mason singing his as he makes ready for work, or leaves off work,
The boatman singing what belongs to him in his boat, the deckhand singing on the steamboat deck,
The shoemaker singing as he sits on his bench, the hatter singing as he stands,
The wood-cutter’s song, the ploughboy’s on his way in the morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,
The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing,
Each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else,
The day what belongs to the day—at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly,
Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.

3) Midnight in Harlem, Tedeschi Trucks Band 5:53

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … and today dreaming of a good night’s sleep

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1) Sleepin, The Duhks 3:46
2) Call It Sleep, Slaid Cleaves 3:26
3) You Can Sleep While I Drive, Melissa Ethridge 4:01
The Waking
By Theodore Roethke
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

We think by feeling. What is there to know?
I hear my being dance from ear to ear.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Of those so close beside me, which are you?
God bless the Ground! I shall walk softly there,
And learn by going where I have to go.

Light takes the Tree; but who can tell us how?
The lowly worm climbs up a winding stair;
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.

Great Nature has another thing to do
To you and me; so take the lively air,
And, lovely, learn by going where to go.

This shaking keeps me steady. I should know.
What falls away is always. And is near.
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I learn by going where I have to go.

4) Sleep, Plumb 5:20

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … in order for me to give you must learn to receive

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1) Share the Ride, The Black Crowes 4:9
2) So So Freely, Ages and Ages 3:23
And in order for you to give I must learn to receive
3) Higher Place, Tom Petty 3:56
4) Give a Little Bit, The Goo Goo Dolls 3:36

The world is as it appears
By Miguel Hernández
The world is as it appears
before my five senses,
and before yours, which are
the borders of my own.
The others' world
is not ours: not the same.
You are the body of water
that I am— we, together,
are the river
which as it grows deeper
is seen to run slower, clearer.
Images of life—
as soon as we receive them,
they receive us, delivered
jointly, in one rhythm.
But things form themselves
in our own delirium.
The air has the hugeness
of the heart I breathe,
and the sun is like the light
with which I challenge it.
Blind to the others,
dark, always remiss,
we always look inside,
we see from the most intimate places.
It takes work and love
to see these things with you;
to appear, like water