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Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … crying buckets full of tears in a house full of love

1) Crying Over, Patti Griffin 4:38
2) Tears, The Stone Roses 6:50
3) A Million Tears, Kasey Chambers 4:21

And because William Carlos Williams is his favorite, this one is for Steve-o

The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

4) Buckets of Rain, The Wood Brothers 3:26
5) I’m Not Afraid To Die, Gillian Welch 3:28
6) Southside of Heaven, Ryan Bingham 6:23

Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight
By Jane Hirshfield
One ran,
her nose to the ground,
a rusty shadow
neither hunting nor playing.
One stood; sat; lay down; stood again.
One never moved,
except to turn her head a little as we walked.
Finally we drew too close,
and they vanished.
The woods took them back as if they had never been.
I wish I had thought to put my face to the grass.
But we kept walking,
speaking as strangers do when becoming friends.
There is more and more I tell no one,
strangers nor loves.

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

1) Time Of The Season, The Dave Matthews Band 4:29
2) Mad Season, Matchbox Twenty 5:02

The Signature Mark of Autumn by Gary Young

3) Season of the Witch, Donovan 4:56
4) The Seasons, Lynyrd Skynyrd 4:11
5) I Feel A Change Coming, Bob Dylan 5:25
A Crown of Autumn Leaves
by Annie Finch
Our voices press
from us
and twine
around the year's
fermenting wine

Yellow fall roars
Over the ground.
Loud, in the leafy sun that pours
Liquid through doors,
Yellow, the leaves twist down

as the winding
of the vine
pulls our curling
voices—

Glowing in wind and change,
The orange leaf tells

How one more season will alter and range,
Working the strange
Colors of clamor and bells

In the winding
of the vine
our voices press out
from us
to twine

When autumn gathers, the tree
That the leaves sang
Reddens dark slowly, then, suddenly free,
Turns like a key,
Opening air where they hang

and the winding
of the vine
makes our voices
turn and wind
with the year’s
fermented wine

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and asking permission

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1) Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright, The Village 4:23
2) Let Your Loss Be Your Lesson, Robert Plant and Alison Krauss 4:04
3) Humble Me, Nora Jones 4:38

God Says Yes to Me - Kaylin Haught
I asked God if it was okay to be melodramatic
and she said yes
I asked her if it was okay to be short
and she said it sure is
I asked her if I could wear nail polish
or not wear nail polish
and she said honey
she calls me that sometimes
she said you can do just exactly
what you want to
Thanks God I said
And is it even okay if I don't paragraph
my letters
Sweetcakes God said
who knows where she picked that up
what I'm telling you is
Yes Yes Yes

4) Is That Too Much To Ask, Beth Hart 3:32
5) You Only Believe Me When I’m Lying, Zoe Muth 3:25

Atomic Numbers by Roy Jacobstein

6) Don’t Ask Me No Quesstions, Lynyrd Skynyrd 3:27
7) Walk Away, The Wood Brothers 4:14

My Brother At the Canadian Border by Sholeh Wolpe

8) My Favorite Mistake, Sheryl Crow 4:07
9) This Is The Place, Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons, 6:18

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Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and lost in flight

1) Blackbird/Yesterday, The Beatles 2:32
2) Songbirds, Marah 3:07
3) Bluebird, Ryan Bingham 5:03

Eagle Poem by Joy Harjo

4) Fly Like An Eagle, Steve Miller Band 3:05
5) Seagull, Bad Company 4:03

Magpies in the Graveyard
6) Maybe Sparrow, Neko Case 2:37
7) Flightless Bird, Iron & Wine 4:03
8) Parrots, Alexis Harte 3:32

Flyway by Julia Levine

9) Birdsong, The Grateful Dead, 10:55

Birdwings by Rumi translated by Coleman Barks

10) Free As A Bird, John Lennon 3:25
11) I’ll Fly Away, Allison Krauss & Gillian Welch 3:58

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and easy forward please

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1) Find the River, R.E.M 3:50
2) Ease Back, Amos Lee 4:33
3) Summertime Thing, Chuck Prophet 5:12

The Wild Merced
By Donna Emerson

4) Wade in the Water, Patty Griffin 3:08
5) Down To the River/Jeb’s Tune, The Duhks 5:05
6) Sails to the Wind, Dirty Winds 3:32
Practical Water
Brenda Hillman
What does it mean to live a moral life
It is nearly impossible to think about this
We went down to the creek
The sides were filled
with tiny watery activities
The mind was split & mended
Each perception divided into more
& there were in the hearts of the water molecules
little branches perpendicular to thought
Had lobbied the Congress but it was dead
Had written to the Committee on Understanding
Had written to the middle
middle of the middle
class but it was drinking
Had voted in cafes with shoplifters &
beekeepers stirring tea made of water
hitched to the green arc

An ethics occurs at the edge
of what we know
The creek goes underground about here

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and for Cassidy

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1) Just The Way You Are, Bruno Mars 3:41

Today’s show is the soundtrack from a summer spent with a 13-year-old

2) Ridin’ Solo, Jason Derulo 3:36
3) Story Problem, The Envy Corps 4:35

At the Galleria Shopping Mall
by Tony Hoagland

Tony Hoagland
Just past the bin of pastel baby socks and underwear, there are some 49-dollar Chinese-made TVs;

one of them singing news about a far-off war,
one comparing the breast size of an actress from Hollywood

to the breast size of an actress from Bollywood.
And here is my niece Lucinda,

who is nine and a true daughter of Texas,
who has developed the flounce of a pedigreed blonde

and declares that her favorite sport is shopping.
Today is the day she embarks upon her journey,

swinging a credit card like a scythe
through the meadows of golden merchandise.

Today is the day she stops looking at faces,
and starts assessing the labels of purses;

So let it begin. Let her be dipped in the dazzling bounty
and raised and wrung out again and again.

And let us watch.

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and working through some troubles

1) Double Trouble, Lynyrd Skynyrd 3:20
2) Pepper, Butthole Surfers 4:57
3) There Goes the Neighborhood, Sheryl Crow 5:00

The Bad Mother
by Susan Griffin
The bad mother wakes from dreams
of imperfection trying to be perfection.
All night she’s engineered a train
too heavy with supplies
to the interior. She fails.
The child she loves
has taken on bad habits, cigarettes
maybe even drugs. She
recognizes lies. You don’t
fool me, she wants to say,
the bad mother, ready to play
and win.
This lamb who’s gone –
this infant she is
pinioned to – does not listen,
she drives with all her magic down a
different route to darkness where
all life begins.

4) Things Have Changed, Bob Dylan 5:11
5) Breakdown, Tom Petty 2:43

Somewhere Under The Bridge
By Karen J. Weyant

Kids used to hang out. Hussies said my grandmother
of girls who wore their skirts too short,

and teased their hair too high, while my mother
dismissed the boys who hooked their thumbs

in the belt loops of their jeans as bad elements.

Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and keepin’ track of time and it’s time

1) Time to Go Home, Michael Franti 5:10

Rumi: The Edge of the Roof translated by Robert Bly
" I don't like it here, I want to go back.
According to the old Knowers
If you're absent from the one you love
Even for one second that ruins the whole thing!

There must be someone... just to find
One sign of the other world in this town
Would be enough.

You know the great Chinese Simurgh bird
Got caught in this net...
And what can I do? I'm only a wren.

My desire-body, don't come
Strolling over this way.
Sit where you are, that's a good place.

When you want dessert, you choose something rich.
In wine, you look for what is clear and firm.
What is the rest? The rest is mirages,
And blurry pictures, and milk mixed with water.
The rest is self hatred, and mocking other people, and bombing.

So just be quiet and sit down.
The reason is: you are drunk,
And this is the edge of the roof."

2) Time Waits for No One, The Rolling Stones 6:39
3) Time of the Season, The Zombies 3:34

Trying to Write a Poem Against the War

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Hi there … and welcome to Mountain Mama’s Earth Music … home grown and halfway home

1) Pitchfork, Joshua James 4:06
2) Hats Off To Harper, Led Zeppelin 3:39
3) Last Lonely Goodbye, Little Country Giants 2:51

Your Family Reunion
By Perie Longo

I will never be able to keep your family straight.
Is the one with the short, brown hair the sister
or cousin of the woman who was the wife
of a polygamist and why won’t she talk to her?
What’s the name of the one with the dark hair,
who looks like she stopped drinking
since the last reunion? The pretty, young girl
with the very flat stomach and belly button ring,
is she the one who doesn’t know who her father is
or the other one holding a knife in the air?
And the man with his camping site set up
like he invented the whole idea, with a two-foot flame
under a ten-quart kettle, who is he the son of?
How about the one who rewired our camper
so the lights work off the city power
while we’re deep in the woods with no hookup,
is he the ex-nuclear submarine commander?
Who is the mother, again, of those three sisters
the one who ran off with the best friend
of their father? I’m the only one here