#michael glaser

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Screencaps from The Waltons 1973 episode “The Air Mail Man”.

Paul, as Michael Glaser, is an air mail pilot who is forced to land because of engine trouble. He is invited to stay with the Waltons until his plane is fixed.

Thanks a lot to @almondmocha and @lovinggeorgeluzjuice for their wonderful Zebra Docs and Vintage Cult TV.

[chscreativevoices]

Blue

my favorite color is blue!   like the ocean,

like the sky, like the color of my wife's eyes --

each vibrant and changing -- so many hues

it depends on my mood as I try to imagine

which shade of blue I'd want to choose!

When I asked Michael what his favorite color was, he replied with this poem.  It was so sweet I thought about it all day.  I thought how lucky his wife was to be thought of in such a touching way.  After being inspired by this poem, I thought of a slogan for our 8th annual Read Across America "Poetry puts pictures in our heads and lingers in our hearts."  Thank you Michael for gifting CHS with your presence!".

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Michael Glaser:The Economy of Days

  The Economy of Days

      To want, to have, to do‑‑

the verbs I live

in perpetual unrest.

  How difficult to be‑‑

to embrace the homely

details of my days

  to open my heart

to the flow

of this amphibious life,

  to trust in the motion toward

as a fish trusts

the river at its gills,

  to trust in this journey,

to swim,

to be still.

                                  . . . Michael S. Glaser

   *I have been given permission to post this poem.

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Michael Glaser: Weather

           Weather

  "In this kind of weather

even the birds go hungry."

  He was talking of the wind.

For days it had not let up.

  The harbor was a litter of boats

lost from their moorings

  The garden, a confusion

of tree limbs.

  She was looking for symmetry,

something to explain the ache

  of weather she felt in her joints

as she listened for bird songs

  or the sounds of vegetables

rising from the earth,

  She was thinking about the clarity

of the skin on an eggplant and

  looking out the window at something

he could not see when he put his hand

   on her shoulder and said,

"It'll stop just as suddenly as it blew in.”

  She wanted to say, "fuck you" 

but he would have misunderstood

  and having thought it, having recognized

her voice the moment she  heard it in her ears

  she did not need to say it

and she opened the front door instead

  and flew boldly into the wind.

                                                  . . .Michael S. Glaser

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Won't You Celebrate With Me?

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Won't You Celebrate With Me?

Honoring the Life and Poetic Legacy of Lucille Clifton

Nikki Giovanni and Afaa Michael Weaver head a  star-studded lineup of poets and writers reading and remembering Lucille Clifton on the 75th anniversary of her birth; readers include Melvin Brown, Sarah Browning, Linda Joy Burke, Hayes Davis, Teri Cross Davis, Joanne Gabbin, Reginald Harris, Bruce Jacobs and Jadi Omowale. Michael Glaser, Maryland Poet Laureate 2004-2009, will serve as emcee.

Barnes & Noble, Power Plant, will sell copies of Lucille Clifton's books following the reading.

Schedule: (click on the location to see map)

Central Library   Thursday, Jun 14, 2012 (7:00 p.m.)   Main Hall

Suggested Audience:

Adults

  Seniors

[peace-love-birds]

I have always felt the living presence of trees the forest that calls to me as deeply as I breathe, as though the woods were marrow of my bone as though I myself were tree, a breathing, reaching arc of the larger canopy beside a brook bubbling to foam like the one deep in these woods, that calls that whispers home

"The Presence of Trees" Michael Glaser

[jalylah]

...[O]ne thing i've learned in this life is that i will probably have to comfort myself

Lucille Clifton, "I'd Like Not to Be a Stranger in the World: A Conversation/Interview with Lucille Clifton," Antioch Review 58.3 (via Bettina)