[Unedited] Michael Longley with Krista Tippett
On Being with Krista Tippett
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I Walk Ever More Slowly to Gait and Style.
Poem is a religious poem for the beginning of this century, at which iwill take your translation. It's about finding it harder to walk around this rough turrain ani. Nothing, however great, is certainto it is called age. Poetry is shrinking almost to its own bones. I got the last line wronk in egi again. The ringed plover's nest has kept me awake. And the otter that drowned in a needle trap. Salvaging snail shells and magpie feathers for fear of leaving particulars out. My favourite quote on growing old is uby blake. He was a jas pianist, and he was still playing away when he
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