Hello Friends —
You can’t read today’s poem-a-day.* You can only listen to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFAOJnfM6g8
I don’t have a really articulate argument for you for why Patty Griffin‘s “Mary” crosses the line from a song to a poem. But I do recall E.E. Cummings once saying, “I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.”
— Ellen
* Lyrics available upon request.