Episode Description
Welcome to In Three Poems, where each episode, we talk with a guest poet, read two poems by them and one by a poet of their choice. And we explore what connections the works may have. Coincidentally, our guest today, Jessica Whipple has chosen a poem by first-season guest Grant Clauser.
Jessica Whipple writes for adults and children. Her poetry has been published most recently in Paddler Press, Wild Roof Journal, Philadelphia Stories, Gastronomica: The Journal for Food Studies, Anti-Heroin Chic, Pine Hills Review, and ONE ART.
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Poem 1:
"Poem on the Last Day of My Thirties," written by Jessica Whipple and read by David.
I find a can of beans in the kitchen.
Great Northern, left there open the night before.
They're past their prime now. Into the trash they go.
I'm ashamed of the waste. I didn't intend to wake
wondering if I've spent well the years in this vessel
but sometimes a question needs to be left out on the counter
to know what should be done with it in the morning.
Poem 2:
"Mother Coyote Explains a Wildlife Crossing," written and read by Jessica Whipple.
It is new like you are new. Yet,
it is again, and again is open.
It is there like the water is there
and always, like weather.
Because of it, only is gone.
It’s been replaced by over,
which, before this, was
something only mountains gave us.
Yes, there will be lost.
We’ll slink under its fog
until we raise our heads
to see all of where.
And where is worth seeing.
Where is quiet, but
it will awaken
and surge
and you will, too
Poem 3
"Watching a Flying Squirrel by Grant Clauser from his book Temporary Shelters