Aaron Smith
speaker
2,298 appearances
12 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 25 Aug
Aaron Smith’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And may it heal the women too, millions like my mother who are left behind when what they love about a man is wrenched out of his body, hidden in another place.
In another language, Tara is the name of a she-god sprung out of a human tear.
She heals all wounds and brings the world a sense of peace.
On this island where the gods would outnumber the humans in a week, if such a mode of birth became habitual, I beg her presence as I feel my breath flying like a jet from Newark out into the world.
There's a quantity of tenderness I feel sometimes that drops into my chest, precipitous and golden as the sun into Fort Lee.
I couldn't tell you where it comes from, but I'm learning where it hides.
It's in the nectarine you ate for breakfast or the thing you're doing now, not in what you think you should do or in what comes next.
And it's not in what you think God means.
The only certainty is that you're wrong.
draw a deep breath thank you mother hold the light inside and let it find the ragged spots a gentle tongue to probe for carries then expire a little part of you is in the wind now a trace of pain or coffee and the scent of brine that clasps you like a lover closer and more faithful than a lover
Bless me, Father.
This is my first confession.
I'm living in the light at the bottom of a sea of air.
Everything I need in a place I share with everyone.
It's in your hands.
I remember reading that to my friend, the poet Irene McKinney, and she just looked up and she said, he's better than Lowell.
You know, I was like, wow, such, you know, high praise.
Like Israel Key, she kept going back.
I have to say it's so funny, like the Nicole Kidman commercial where she talks about, we come to the movies, you know, that one.
Yeah, that one.
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