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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The snows come and the parks are full of skaters.
But I think that Anna Akhmatova has not slept for years, and now she is awake beyond music, beyond shoes that button up.
the sides of each thin ankle beyond her face that lacks teeth eyes and mouth a face that can stare back even now in ohio until i doze on this train and let the fields pass their weeds the vague gray flags of childhood
But while I sleep, I dream St.
Petersburg out of each book, and they start shooting students in Ohio again.
Her hair and each gel grows whiter, and when I wake, I have no right to speak.
Anna Akhmatova, watching blood cover the lips of horses, remembered her son's skin as snow, sky the shattered porcelain on a roadside, as the white skins of swans drying over her head.
Once in a market, even now, when the dead wake inside her blood, she approaches that butcher.
She raises a finger to haggle over such meat.
She stares straight at him and turns to air, but the butcher looks up into his unlit, empty shop.
The places that he goes and imagines her, you know, somewhere in time and history still living and bringing it back to the shooting at Kent State and Ohio.
I mean, just everywhere and giving her agency and thought and imagining it.
You know, it's just everything is and there's no sensationalization of it.
But I love watching that process happen over so many pages because it's like he does become more and more masterful.
I mean, as he goes, those last elegies are absolutely breathtaking.
I mean, the one that I read, The Smell of the Sea, every single that that sustains all the way through.
And those lines are long.
I mean, it's it's something a lot long lines and a long poem.
It gives me anxiety to think about trying to write one.
and its eventual brief triumph so great again going and you know billy holiday is just right there in that poem going along with him right yeah and
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