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An episode from 3/12/23: Tonight, I return to new episodes with a handful of poems about the spring. As I mention, living as I do in a city usually inundated with snow, it has been bizarre to have not shoveled the driveway even once. And since the next few weeks of episodes are already planned out, it seemed appropriate to get to spring early, since the earth is doing that already. The poems are:

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• Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), \u201cThere is another sky\u201d
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• e. e. cummings (1894-1962), \u201cO sweet spontaneous\u201d
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• Richard Eberhart (1904-2005), \u201cThis Fevers Me\u201d
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• Kenneth Rexroth (1905-1982), from \u201cToward an Organic Philosophy\u201d
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• Vernon Watkins (1906-1967), from \u201cThe Tributary Seasons\u201d
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• Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950), \u201cSpring\u201d (\u201cTo what purpose, April, do you return again?\u201d
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• Abbie Huston Evans (1881-1983), \u201cThe Old Yellow Shop\u201d
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• Elinor Wylie (1885-1928), from \u201cWild Peaches\u201d
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• Henry King (1592-1669), \u201cA Contemplation upon Flowers\u201d
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• William Shakespeare (1564-1616), from Act 3 of King Lear
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• Ted Hughes (1930-1998), \u201cFour March Watercolours\u201d
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