radio poems and pop songs.  let the movie happen in your mind.

cosmic dream radio is a podcast featuring unconventional readings of original and classic poems:  

www.luminouswork.org/podcast 

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Sample tracks from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.  

Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic.  This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in. 

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Mark Strand's poem THE END.  Learn more about this track at: www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2015/10/12/strands-the-end

THE END

A reading of Mark Strand's poem THE END.  Part of COSMIC DREAM RADIO Episode 6: www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2015/10/12/strands-the-end

Mark Strand's  "The End" - Reading

A straight-up reading of T. S. Eliot's poem 'Ash Wednesday'.  All six parts.  

more info at:
www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2016/2/17/doing-penance

T.S. Eliot's Ash Wednesday

Heart/hart, night/knight, pen/pin, a forest, swords, and clouds.   A tarot card inspires this track.  Learn more about it at www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2016/8/9/three-swords

three swords

For Valentine's Day, Excepts of Gregory Orr's lyric sequence, _Orpheus & Eurydice_ published by Copper Canyon Press in 2001.

How can I celebrate love now that I know what it does?

Learn more about this poem and hear the podcast intro at:  www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2017/orr-orpheus

Orpheus & Eurydice by Greogry Orr

A new poem read normally.  Because it's cataclysmic all on its own.

Learn more about this lyrical, liturgical poem at www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2017/7/31/christmas-trees

Cosmic Dream Radio

Christmas Trees

I worry about climate change and see teatime as an implement to planetary destruction.  This poem broadcast as Episode 13 of the Cosmic Dream Radio podcast.  Learn more about the poem at www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2018/worryworryworry or go to www.luminouswork.org/podcast.

every season something to fear

A radio-play style reading about walking a shore-line on the longest night of the year.  

learn more at www.luminouswork.org/cosmic-dream-radio/2018/5/29/seqsolstice

sequence from the solstice

Sample tracks from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.  

The last track.  Love?  Death?  I got away...this time.

Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/tfrh
Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic.  This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.

black birds

27 Black Birds

Sample from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.  
A medley of themes.   

Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/tfrh
Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic.  This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.

24 These Fountains Rare Here

Sample from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.  

Lost at night under the rising sign of orion.

Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/tfrh
Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic.  This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.

Come on Lonely

21 Come On Lonely

Sample from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.  

I went down to the proverbial crossroads to meet the devil.  She turned out to be a triple-faced goddess with a cloak of dogs.  "Follow the dogs," she says, "For they know other roads not mapped by sight..."

Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/tfrh
Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic.  This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.

Hekate

20 Hekate

Sample from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.  

Outside the moon's lake house, ladyies indulge in a feast.

Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/tfrh
Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic.  This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.

Ladyies Indulge

16 Ladyies Indulge

Sample track from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.  

Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic.  This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in. 

Learn more at www.luminouswork.org

Spring Hunt

14 Spring Hunt

Sample track from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.    

I meet an explorer in the steam room.  He tells me about springs deep enough for me to bathe in.

Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/tfrh
Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic.  This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.

The Explorer

10 The Explorer

Sample from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.  

Inside the sanatorium, there's a dreadful routine.
Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/tfrh
Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic.  This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.

Routine

4 Routine

Sample from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.  
How love without beautiful?  How be loved?
Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/tfrh
Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic.  This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.

November

2 November

After deer nymphs lure me to the shore of moon's lake, I go in quest of springs deep enough for me to bathe in.  Includes tracks Spring Hunt, Run Run, Ladyies Indulge.  

All sound and voice: Laylage Courie
Victorian Travel Guide: Phil Courie

More at www.luminouswork.org or www.luminouswork.org/epk for Press Kit.
Music video for ladyies indulge on youtube at https://youtu.be/mQOpsSxVn0c

Spring Hunt - Ladyies Indulge

Sample from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.    

A monologue outside the sanatorium sets the stage.  With the voice from an antique travel book.

Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/tfrh
Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic.  This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.

black (outside a sanatorium)

1 Black (outside A Sanitorium)

Excerpt from _these fountains rare here_ a genre-bending concept album about a woman's quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.

www.luminouswork.org

13 EXCERPT Brightly Sweet Summer

Sample from the genre-bending concept album _these fountains rare here_.    

Hunting for springs deep enough to bathe in. 

Learn more at www.luminouswork.org/tfrh
Here we step out of worn and weary ruts into a hint and suggestion of something high and poetic.  This is one woman’s coming-of-age quest for springs deep enough for her to bathe in.

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cosmic dream radio is my podcast of strange poetry readings
these fountains rare here my genre-bending concept album.

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