Wes Lydon

January 3, 2022

Episode 058 - How to Write a Poem

Wes Lydon

January 3, 2022

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February 4, 2026

February 4, 2026

I’m thinking of you beautiful
and young, of me young

and confused and maybe

February 4, 2026

October 13, 2025

October 13, 2025

I’m listening to my father and his brother,
both in their eighties, debate their childhood
from adjoining La-Z-Boy recliners.

October 13, 2025

September 8, 2025

September 8, 2025

I’ve been thinking about the way, when you walk
down a crowded aisle, people pull in their legs
to let you by. Or how strangers still say “bless you”

September 8, 2025

April 7, 2025

April 7, 2025

We are Starseeds
                   every one of us –
                                                     you & me,

April 7, 2025

January 13, 2025

January 13, 2025

at the end of a bad year. Trees begin
to outnumber houses. Rain turns to snow
as fields hang like paintings.

January 13, 2025