Poem-a-Day, April 5, 2011: Cleaning up the place.

Hello Friends —

You can’t read today’s poem-a-day.* You can only listen to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFAOJnfM6g8

I don’t have a really articulate argument for you for why Patty Griffin‘s “Mary” crosses the line from a song to a poem. But I do recall E.E. Cummings once saying, “I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.”

— Ellen

* Lyrics available upon request.

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