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  Poetry Reading: The Unelected, by Dav...

  Poetry Reading: The Unelected, by Dav...

  Performed by Val Cole

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  01:04

  Poetry Reading: Can we talk, by Sara ...

  Poetry Reading: Can we talk, by Sara ...

  Performed by Val Cole

  POEM:

  Talking endlessly and without reason,
  I should have something to say,
  something to tell you that would help you on your way,
  I pause,
  ready to speak,
  yet nothing,
  not even something little,
  not even something great,
  just silence,
  silence so small,
  so cogent,
  it ca...

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  02:02

  Poetry Reading: THE SILT OF GRIEVING,...

  Poetry Reading: THE SILT OF GRIEVING,...

  Performed by Val Cole

  POEM:

  —For my mother

  while night scoops down to transform silt in the veins
  spilling into day a slow drowning in songs from the waters of life
  stretched fraying before day breaks
  to dying embers of temporariness
  wind blows like candle flames struggling,
  calling with moan...