A special "on the road" version of the Report this week. I stopped along the northern tip of Lake Michigan just off Hwy 2 -- one of my favorite stretches of road in the world -- with whitecaps breaking on the sand and the sun sinking into the water. Another trip through the Prairie and Badlands on "Blue Highways," and a great two-days at Bedlam Theatre in MNPLS for their 10-Minute Play Fest and the great pleasure of making new friends and reconnecting with old. (Silver and gold.)
This week's poem was written along this stretch of Hwy 2, on my way to see Tom Waits in MNPLS (Yes, I did include that detail just to make you jealous). "Plum" is one of those poems where "that which is not experienced" holds more delight than "that which is." Or at least, I think that's what I'm getting at in it.
To go along with the crashing waves, the music this week is "Water" from Jim Pepper's Comin' and Goin' release. Pepper's work is a great fusion of jazz and traditional Native American music styles. He's worth checking out if you don't know his work.
Listen to Report #16 here:
reportfromthemountains16.mp3
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