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The Poetry Show: Veterans Day poems

 
 
Enlighten Radio Presents
 
Poetry from the Foxholes: Flying Crooked
 
 
Robert Graves, Wilfred Owen, Marvin Bell, Brian Turner, Amelia Opie, and more ... from Europe, Vietnam, Ukraine, Gaza and Mississipppi
Broadcast Wednesdays 10 AM Eastern
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded November 13, 2024
Veterans of the Seventies
by Melvin Bell
 
His army jacket bore the white rectangle of one who has torn off his name. He sat mute at the round table where the trip-wire veterans ate breakfast. They were foxhole buddies who went stateside without leaving the war. They had the look of men who held their breath and now their tongues. What is to say beyond that said by the fathers who bent lower and lower as the war went on, spines curving toward the ground on which sons sat sandbagged with ammo belts enough to make fine lace of enemy flesh and blood. Now these who survived, who got back in cargo planes emptied at the front, lived hiddenly in the woods behind fence wires strung through tin cans. Better an alarm than the constant nightmare of something moving on its belly to make your skin crawl with the sensory memory of foxhole living.
 
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The Poetry Show: Doctors of Verse

 
 
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You and the Doc: Till Death Do Us Part
 
 
What the physician saw in me. What the Lobsterman saw in the sea.
Wednesdays, 10 AM
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded Nov 7, 2024
 
A Lobsterman Looks At The Sea
by Richard Berlin
His new hip healed in, we're working on a bluff, talking doctors and health care reform as we shove a new propane tank into place. A shape on the surface catches his eye: "Right whale," he says, but I can only see endless swells rolling in from the east. He points out the gradations of gray and green that mark deep ledge, the tide's shape along the islands and rocks, the whale's glistening back suddenly in focus. I react with the same surprise my patients feel when I observe what they can't see— a sudden shift in gaze, or a crease in a cheek, understanding how a doctor becomes like a man who has spent sixty years on a lobster boat, watching the world swim fast and shining, right before his eyes.
 
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The Last Stop Cafe: So, What’s next, Doc?

 
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The Last Stop Cafe: So, What's next, Doc?
The Yankees Could Have Won If the Scoreboard Operator Had Done His Job!!!
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini and John Case
Mike and John try to keep a lid on it. The Day Before It Happened. As it turns out everyone in the Cafe decided to leave by the Back Door. That sign that says "Warning! Abyss!!" was not a joke.
 
 
Mondays 7:30 AM
 
This Episode Recorded Nov 4, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: November 4: Engaging Questions

The Poetry Show: Ghosts

 
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Talk to Your Ghosts.
 
 
Emily Dickinson, Edna St Vincent Millay, Lola Haskins haunt the other side, of yourself.
Wednesdays, 10 AM
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded Oct 30, 2024
Patsy Sees a Ghost
by Lola Haskins
 
Patsy Sees a Ghost by Lola Haskins I'm crossing the river where it narrows, carefully, it being Sunday and I'm past the root end of the log when I look up, and there's a haunt sitting on the blossom end. I can see trumpet vine and blackberries through her white dress. Gnats hang in the air. The river runs, red-brown and deep. The haunt sings and it's my music, the blood song of my heart and bones and my skull dancing in the road. And Chloe, she knows my name. She says Oh Patsy, take care, or you will surely fall and the thick river will pull you too to shroudy weeds and you'll be gone, gone as the moment you looked up and saw the trumpet vine and berrries, hot and ready through my white dress, gone as all the years since I died, and waited here for you.
 
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The World Series of America: The Polls Are Open

 
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The World Series of America: The Polls Are Open
Its Over. We Just Don't Know It Yet.
 
 
Mondays 7:30 AM
Hosts: Mike Cuccherini and John Case
 
Special Guests:Hector Lopez, Kim John Un, President Trumpet
Folks:
Did I do everything I could do to stop it??!! I do not want to tell myself, or anyone else, that I did not, ten days hence. The Dodgers are a wildfire consuming America. However, the Yankees have the Sisters of Fate in their pocket, who await us all.
This Episode Recorded Oct 28, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Winners and Losers: The Troy Miller District 98 Delegate Campaign

 
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Winners and Losers: The Troy Miller District 98 Delegate Campaign
A Knowledgeable and Progressive Democrat Takes on Some Established Interests On the ROAD AHEAD
 
 
Fridays, 7:30 AM EST
Hosts: Karen Valentine and John Case
 
Special Guest: Troy Miller
 
Democrat Troy Miller takes on some of the complex questions facing Jefferson County, WV and its representation in the Republican dominated State legislature.
This Episode Recorded Oct 25, 2024 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio: The Storytelling Hour: October 14: Crazy adventures