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Enlighten Radio Presents
 
Dark -- But Untwisted
 
 
Poems to the "black swan" -- associated with magical rarity, or fantasy contexts, except in Australia whence they originate. Jeanine Leane, Bridget Pegeen Kelly, Katharyn Howd Machan, more
Wednesdays 10 AM
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded May 18, 2026
Odile, The Black Swan
by Una Mcdonnell
Impossible to look at her without thinking dark water, depths where light doesn't reach. In the diner on Dalhousie, her presence commands the booth, though only the decrepit at the counter sees the water rising, water- line gurgling just beneath her chin. Flutter of a dark wing that briefly stretches. Sally, a regular, orders coffee between johns, eggs at 4 a.m. They arrive, sunny side silicon perfect. Minivans line up to glean sorrow from her eyes. If only I could dance, says Sally. When the sky turns pink, she'll sleep. Odile once had an act involving lit black candles and a snake. Smoke she could conjure on demand. Rose on stage, an angel from the black lake. They all desired her, but one. Before Champagne Rooms, loose laws, when looking was enoughShe holds her mug as if it could contain her. The transistor radio tin-tin-tins demented heart songs tie a yellow ribbon -- and getting caught in the rain --¦ and I'll never have that recipe again --Pale-skinned fries rise like broken limbs from plates, tendrils of vinegar seep down. The scent is grease, acid, hot breath and chrome. There are no new ways to be alone. There are no new ways to mourn.
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
Will it be "Baseball", a fair game, or War
 
Stand Still, if you can.
 
 
 
Broadcast Thrsdays 11 AM, player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: John Case, James Boyd, Mike Cuccherini
Mike updates the Spring Trainin Explosioins. Mean while, we await the likelihood of world war from the dice roll of the "Thucydides Trap"
This Episode Recorded may 14 at the Red Caboose Studio, Harpers Ferry, WV
 
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Enlighten Radio Presents
 
Speakingof Rivers
 
 
Soulful flow of rivers: Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Oliver Tearl, Pablo Neruda, KLathleen Raine, Don Domanski, Rabindranath Tagore
Broadcast Wednesdays, 10 AM on player.enlightenradio.org
Hosts: Janet Harrison, John Case
This Episode Recorded may 6, 2026
The Negro speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
 
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