‘Poetry Unbound’ Returns, With Wisdom For Living Now
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Transubstantiation by Molly Macaulay Brown
Molly macaulay brown's poem Transubstantiation is part of an interlude from a book that explores imaginatively the legacy of a building. The narrator in this poem has an extraordinary expansove gaze and can see all around, from the cattle to the bathtubs,. rowdy with the rumour of another place thand there'sth city off in the corner. And she sees that this place, this nowhere none the less, might look like home. She invites us into a different way of looking, to see the multiple possibilities of meaning and use and their own magic that people and places have....
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