Many poems were shared online in the wake of Aretha Franklin's recent passing. Connor and Jack explore the emotional and poetic depths of this poem by Ada Limon, written ten years ago, which simultaneously celebrates Franklin and her music, shows the immediate impact hearing that music for the first time can have on an unsuspecting young listener, and also contains the contradictions and glories of Franklin herself. In the end, they decide the poem is simply a stunning work of astounding depth. Find out more about Ada Limon, here: http://adalimon.com/ Find her new book, The Carrying, here: https://milkweed.org/book/the-carrying Listen to her interview with NPR, here: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/19/639997901/ada-limon-on-poetry-collection-the-carrying Find us on facebook at: facebook.com/closetalking Find us on twitter at: twitter.com/closetalking You can always send us an e-mail with thoughts on this or any of our previous podcasts, as well as suggestions for future shows, at [email protected]. Some of Your Love with Me -For Aretha Franklin By: Ada Limon Miles of vinyl highways spun out and steady round we went. Your first note, boiled over and tough in its tender bends, broke a ten year old kneeling on a tile floor in two. Your record aching round, stunned, plummeted, and dunked me under a sound that seized hold of my poor forming bird shell body who would not even dare, dear diva, to mouth your silence. Me, I became the shaking speaker, all my hairs like lung’s thin cilia waving in a whir of song that I would have gone back and begged to be born in.

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