A recording of “What the Body Gives, Gravity Takes.”
Thank you, Finnegan Daley, for the request.
You can read the poem here.
O at the Edges
Musings on poetry, language, perception, numbers, food, and anything else that slips through the cracks.
A recording of “What the Body Gives, Gravity Takes.”
Thank you, Finnegan Daley, for the request.
You can read the poem here.
O at the Edges 
Thank you so much for recording this, Okaji-sama! This one is powerful, and begs to be read out loud.
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It was my pleasure!
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I don’t like it, I love it Robert!
Thanks for sharing that beautiful reading, of your beautiful words. 🙂
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You’re very kind, Suzanne. Thank you!
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Nice poem. love the picture of the ice… cool!
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Thank you, Liz. The photo is from morguefile.com.
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It’s good to hear you read your poem, Bob. The meaning is made clearer when we hear the tones, stresses and pauses.
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I think a poem like this, which consists of purloined lines taken out of context and bundled together, can be quite difficult to approach on the page. But they’re fun to do!
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Yes, I have tried ‘finding’ poems and yes, they are fun 🙂
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