Luci Shaw's "Time Travel"

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🗓️ 4 September 2020

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Luci Shaw was born in 1928 in London, England, and has lived in Canada, Australia and the U.S.A. A 1953 high honors graduate of Wheaton College in Illinois, she became co-founder and later president of Harold Shaw Publishers, and since 1988 has been a Writer in Residence at Regent College, Vancouver, Canada.

Shaw is a frequent retreat facilitator and leads writing workshops in church and university settings. She has lectured in North America and abroad on topics such as art and spirituality, the Christian imagination, poetry-writing, and journal-writing as an aid to artistic and spiritual growth.

A charter member of the Chrysostom Society of Writers, Shaw is author of eleven volumes of poetry including Sea Glass: New & Selected Poems (WordFarm, 2016), Thumbprint in the Clay: Divine Marks of Beauty, Order and Grace (InterVarsity Press, 2016), Polishing the Petoskey Stone (Shaw, 1990), Writing the River (Pinon Press, 1994/Regent Publishing, 1997), The Angles of Light (Waterbrook, 2000), The Green Earth: Poems of Creation (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2002), has edited three poetry anthologies and a festschrift, The Swiftly Tilting Worlds of Madeleine L’Engle, (Shaw, 1998). Her most recent books are What the Light Was Like (Word Farm), Accompanied by Angels(Eerdmans), The Genesis of It All (Paraclete), and Breath for the Bones: Art, Imagination & Spirit (Nelson). Her poetic work and essays have been widely anthologized. Shaw has authored several non-fiction prose books, including Water My Soul: Cultivating the Interior Life (Zondervan) and The Crime of Living Cautiously (InterVarsity). She has also co-authored three books with Madeleine L’Engle, WinterSong (Regent), Friends for the Journey (Regent), and A Prayer Book for Spiritual Friends (Augsburg/Fortress).

Shaw is poetry editor and a contributing editor of Radix, as quarterly journal published in Berkeley, CA, that celebrates art, literature, music, psychology, science and the media, featuring original poetry, reviews and interviews. For more information about Radix, click on Radixmag.com. She is also poetry and fiction editor of Crux, an academic journal published quarterly by Regent College, Vancouver, Canada.

She and her husband John Hoyte live in Bellingham, Washington and are members of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. She loves sailing, tent camping, knitting, gardening, and wilderness photography.

--bio found at lucishaw.com

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Daily Poem. I'm David Kern, and today is Friday, September 4th, 2020.
0:05.8	The poem that I'm going to read today is by Lucy Shaw. It's from her book What the Light was Like.
0:11.2	Lucy Shaw is a American poet who was born in December of 1928. She is still living today, and is one of my very favorite poems.
0:23.0	And today's poem is a personal favorite.
0:27.7	It's become a new personal favorite at any rate. And I want to read it to you, want to share it with you, and then I'll explain a little bit why I love it. One of the some of the things that I think
0:31.0	are intriguing about it. And then, of course, I will read it again. If you've never read Lucy Shaw
0:35.5	or only heard her a time or two on this podcast,
0:38.7	I highly recommend that you check her her workout. It's been widely anthologized, and you can find
0:45.3	some of her collections pretty easily on Amazon or bookshop.org or wherever you get books.
0:50.0	But this is time travel. This is how it goes.
0:57.5	So But this is time travel. This is how it goes. So it's not that I'm driving east across Washington towards Montana,
1:02.4	but that the tires are unrolling this serried map,
1:07.0	moist, unhurried, neon green in May,
1:10.6	like a carpet, the landscape shifting away beneath me.
1:15.0	Wyoming is flattening itself under my wheels, and endless South Dakota. Sprawling animal limbs of hills,
1:23.3	their tawny skin unfolding like velvet, the low sun catching the nap along the ridges,
1:29.9	the perception of standing still and watching the light dissolve. Coming up, Minnesota and a huge
1:37.0	weather front, ahead, a bow of colors paints over a thunderous electric brow of cloud. As I drive through its arc, a wire of
1:47.3	lightning connects me to heaven. What I want to say, these lights in the middle of the tunnel,
1:53.6	it is all here, all now, where I am and where I have been and where tomorrow I will be,
2:00.7	suddenly the deer.
2:03.8	In the shadow light our encounter seems momentous.
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