Magnitudes, by Howard Nemerov, read by Justin Depperschmidt

Amy Clampitt, A Whippoorwill in the Woods

This is a quick comparison of three **original pads** vintage tenors that all came in recently. Each one has its original factory pads and setup intact, even down to the original neck cork. These are played in as-found condition, and they give you a pretty good impression of 

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TOUCH ME – Stanley Kunitz

Summer is late, my heart.
Words plucked out of the air
some forty years ago
when I was wild with love
and torn almost in two
scatter like leaves this night
of whistling wind and rain.
It is my heart that’s late,
it is my song that’s flown.
Outdoors all afternoon
under a gunmetal sky
staking my garden down,
I kneeled to the crickets trilling
underfoot as if about
to burst from their crusty shells;
and like a child again
marveled to hear so clear
and brave a music pour
from such a small machine.
What makes the engine go?
Desire, desire, desire.
The longing for the dance
stirs in the buried life.
One season only,
and it’s done.
So let the battered old willow
thrash against the windowpanes
and the house timbers creak.
Darling, do you remember
the man you married? Touch me,
remind me who I am.

Touch Me by Stanley Kunitz

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The War Against Trees by Stanley Kunitz

Rs Berkeley Chris Potter mouthpiece. 3.5 Rico reed.

Conn Transitional/10m 1935 Silver Plate

Background, context, and poem text: https://www.brainpickings.org/2017/04/11/jocelyn-bell-burnell-dark-matter-poetry-stanley-kunitz/

Excerpted from https://soundcloud.com/uniofbath/astronomy-and-poetry

POEM TEXT / CONTEXT

Jocelyn Bell Burnell reads "Halley's Comet" by Stanley Kunitz

@OnBeing host Krista Tippett reads at the third annual Universe in Verse — a charitable celebration of science through poetry, hosted by Maria Popova at Pioneer Works (April 24, 2019). Poem text and context: https://www.brainpickings.org/2020/01/02/krista-tippett-howard-nemerov-universe-in-verse/

More highlights from The Universe in Verse: https://www.brainpickings.org/tag/the-universe-in-verse/

Amy Clampitt, A Whippoorwill in the Woods

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