An extraordinary poem about light, featured on today's "Writer's Almanac." (For those not familiar with it, "Writer's Almanac" is a daily "literary moment" produced for public radio and distributed throughout the U.S.)
Light, at Thirty-Two
by Michael Blumenthal
from Days We Would Rather Know
It is the first thing God speaks of
when we meet Him, in the good book
of Genesis. And now, I think
I see it all in terms of light:
How, the other day at dusk
on Ossabaw Island, the marsh grass
was the color of the most beautiful hair
I had ever seen, or how
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