1547 Episodes

  1. 586: Poem That Leaves Behind The Ocean

    Published: 1/11/2022

  2. 585: Complex Nonlinear Systems

    Published: 1/10/2022

  3. 584: Marte

    Published: 1/7/2022

  4. 583: What We Talk About When We Talk About the Pursuit of Gender Euphoria

    Published: 1/6/2022

  5. 582: Marrying the Wind

    Published: 1/5/2022

  6. 581: Red-ish Brown-ish

    Published: 1/4/2022

  7. 580: Walking the Dogs

    Published: 1/3/2022

  8. 579: My Empire

    Published: 12/31/2021

  9. 578: Setting Lemon Curd

    Published: 12/30/2021

  10. 577: Poem Beginning to Sound

    Published: 12/29/2021

  11. 576: Taking Down the Tree

    Published: 12/28/2021

  12. 575: How I Learned Bliss

    Published: 12/27/2021

  13. 574: Monday

    Published: 12/24/2021

  14. 573: Bury Me in the Woods of My Childhood

    Published: 12/23/2021

  15. 572: Earth Evanescent

    Published: 12/22/2021

  16. 571: Golden Age

    Published: 12/21/2021

  17. 570: Asking About My Mother

    Published: 12/20/2021

  18. 569: Let's Crawl Into That Photograph & Stay There for a While

    Published: 12/17/2021

  19. 568: When You're Young You Always Take Too Much

    Published: 12/16/2021

  20. 567: Besaydoo

    Published: 12/15/2021

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