Poetic Ghosts of New Years Past – Postcard #50 « Postcards from Gravelly Beach

Poetic Ghosts of New Years Past – Postcard #50

January 3, 2008 at 7:46 am · Filed under Freeverse, Jack London, Out and About, Pender Island, Wm. Lenker

An aural montage of past new years’ evenings featuring Dave O reading from Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” next to crackling cabin woodstove on Pender Island (note scratching dog and someone with a stuffy nose), followed by a latenight freeverse message to Napoleon, a languid tale recorded in a garage about a bewildering New Years Eve in Japan, and finally a poetic nugget of memory and hope for the future.

Enjoy a visit with the Poetic Ghosts of New Years Past – Postcards #50 (.mp3, 22:25, 18MB)

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