2 by Rhina Espaillat

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🗓️ 17 March 2021

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Today's episode features two poems by the great contemporary poet, Rhina Espaillat, both of which were recently published in Plough quarterly.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Daily Poem. I'm David Kern, and today is Wednesday, March 17, 2021.
0:07.0	Today I'm going to read you two poems by one of my favorite poets. Her name is Rina Espayat. She is a Dominican-American poet who was born in January of 1932.
0:17.0	You've heard from her a time or two on this podcast. And today I want to share two new
0:22.8	poems from her, which were published recently in Plow Quarterly. It's a wonderful magazine.
0:28.6	You should head over to plow.com, plow g-h.com to subscribe and to read their wonderful content.
0:36.2	And today I want to read two poems that they published,
0:39.1	and there's several more, as well as an interview with Espiont by A.M. Juster, which is really a wonderful
0:45.9	interview. So if you're interested in her work, you're interested in Plow, please head over to
0:49.9	plow.com, and you'll see, as I said, more poems by her as well as the interview and lots of other great
0:54.7	content. The poem that I'm going to read first is called Where Necture was. It goes like this.
1:05.4	Thinking of you, as all my nights are spent in my days too, although not consciously, but rather as the lightest rain will find whatever roots may trace its element slowly downhill and finally to the sea.
1:22.7	Thinking of you, in a calm state of mind, no longer desolate, in fact inclined to hum while dicing onions.
1:33.0	Absently I turned to you, old friend and only lover, confused over your absence, like a bee whose
1:41.7	shallow habit or lifelong intent draws it where nectar was to buzz and hover.
1:50.2	Thinking of you all day I rediscover myself still here, wondering where you went.
2:01.2	The next poem I want to read is called The Widow Offers Herself to Life,
2:05.0	and I'm going to read this one, and then I'll go back and read each of them a second time.
2:10.4	The Widow Offers Yourself to Life.
2:15.4	Make me your herald, life.
2:18.2	Send me ahead to hail you, as the earliest light is doing for each day, and the scent of coffee brewing.
2:26.7	Or, cozier still, make me your maid instead to serve your coffee, wash you, fresh from bed, dress you, and part the curtains for your
2:35.6	viewing of the earth, as young and constantly renewing itself as you.
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