Read a poem, talk about it, read it again.
Episode 25: Rebroadcast: The Weather in Space And Close Talking Turns One
11/11/2017
It has been one year since Connor and Jack launched Close Talking!. After 24 episodes, they decided to commemorate the occasion by looking back on an episode they particularly enjoyed on now-poet laureate Tracy K. Smith's, "The Weather in Space."
To learn more about Tracy K Smith, go here. Check out her book Life on Mars and her memoir Ordinary Light!
The Weather In Space
By: Tracy K. Smith
Is God being or pure force? The wind
Or what commands it? When our lives slow
And we can hold all that we love, it sprawls
In our laps like a gangly doll. When the storm
Kicks up and nothing is ours, we go chasing
After all we’re certain to lose, so alive—
Faces radiant with panic.