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American Life in Poetry BY KWAME DAWES Missouri poet, Kitty Carpenter, could have chosen any number of titles for her poem, a moving and difficult accounting of how the roles of parent and child change as a result of the passing of time; but it is, in the end, a poem that locates its hope in memory—the memory that the farm represents for her when she thinks of her mother’s strength. Farm Sonnet By Kitty Carpenter The barn roof sags like an ancient mare’s back. The field, overgrown, parts of it a marsh where the pond spills over. No hay or sacks of grain are stacked for the cold. In the harsh winters of my youth, Mama, with an axe, trudged tirelessly each day through deep snow, balanced on the steep bank, swung down to crack the ice so horses could drink. With each blow I feared she would fall, but she never slipped. Now Mama’s bent and withered, vacant gray eyes fixed on something I can’t see. I dip my head when she calls me Mom. What’s to say? The time we have’s still too short to master love, and then, the hollow that comes after.
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Corner Quote “Of all the things I wondered about on this land, I wondered the hardest about the seduction of certain geographies that feel like home — not by story or blood but merely by their forms and colors. How our perceptions are our only internal map of the world, how there are places that claim you and places that warn you away. How you can fall in love with the light.” - Ellen Meloy, “The Anthropology of Turquoise: Reflections on Desert, Sea, Stone, and Sky”
BEATS Movie soundtracks BY GABRIELLE GASSER A perhaps underrated part of the cinema experience is the wonderful soundtrack tailored expertly to that film. There have been times where my decision to see a movie was influenced by the composer. The soundtracks can give me goosebumps, make me feel motivated or inspire a deep sorrow. Some of my favorite composers include Hans Zimmer who scored “Interstellar” and Alexandre Desplat who scored “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” and “The Danish Girl.” This playlist features songs from some of my PHOTO BY DAYNE TOPKIN favorite movie soundtracks. ON UNSPLASH 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
“Lily’s Theme” by Alexandre Desplat “The Black Pearl” by Klaus Badelt “Cornfield Chase” by Hans Zimmer “The Danish Girl” by Alexandre Desplat “Game of Thrones” by Ramin Djawadi “Why So Serious?” by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard “The Hanging Tree” by James Newton Howard “The Avengers” by Alan Silvestri “Iron Man 3” by Brian Tyler “Theme from Jurassic Park” by John Williams
