Recorded on West Mountain, just west of Spanish Fork, Utah. It was blustery and cold, but kind of weirdly beautiful regardless. Beautiful in its desolate ugliness, I guess.
The painting I mentioned is indeed by Francisco Goya, but I got the name of the painting wrong. It is "Saturn Eating His Children" which you can see and read about [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_Devouring_His_Son). It's still a perfect painting to accompany this, I think.
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Three poems by Stephen Crane
**"I Saw A Man Pursuing the Horizon"**
I saw a man pursuing the horizon;
Round and round they sped.
I was disturbed at this;
I accosted the man.
"It is futile," I said,
"You can never --"
"You lie," he cried,
And ran on.
**"In the Desert"**
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his heart in his hands,
And ate of it.
I said, "Is it good, friend?"
"It is bitter--bitter," he answered;
"But I like it
"Because it is bitter,
"And because it is my heart."
**"In Heaven"**
In Heaven,
Some little blades of grass
Stood before God.
"What did you do?"
Then all save one of the little blades
Began eagerly to relate
The merits of their lives.
This one stayed a small way behind
Ashamed.
Presently God said:
"And what did you do?"
The little blade answered: "Oh, my lord,
"Memory is bitter to me
"For if I did good deeds
"I know not of them."
Then God in all His splendor
Arose from His throne.
"Oh, best little blade of grass," He said.
Episode 308: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "My Cathedral"
Episode 307: Amy Lowell's "Fenway Park: Study in Orange and Silver"
Episode 306: Margaret Atwood's "You Begin"
Episode 305: Shakespeare's Sonnet 126
Episode 304: Emily Dickinson's "Tell all the truth but tell it slant"
Episode 303: Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Spring"
Episode 302: Mary Oliver's "Why I Wake Early"
Episode 301: Donald Justice's "Men at Forty"
Episode 300: Billy Collins' "The Effort"
Episode 205: Shakespeare's sonnet 20
Episode 204: Edwin Arlington Robinson's "Cliff Klingenhagen"
Episode 203: Shakespeare's sonnet 18
Episode 202: George Herbert's "Easter Wings"
Episode 201: Shakespeare's sonnet 3
Episode 200: "How Frugal is the Chariot"
Episode 142: "Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me"
Episode 141: "yes I said yes I will yes"
Episode 140: "I Should Know What God and Man Is"
Episode 139: Edgar Lee Master's "Lucinda Matlock"
Episode 138: Walt Whitman's "I Hear It Was Charged Against Me"
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