“People Planes”

Step into a quiet detour with a Randoverse Intermission, where older stories from history are lifted out of their centuries and carried into new sound and new light. This episode features “The Discontented Pendulum” (1810), written by Jane Taylor, one of the earliest women in English literature to…

There’s a town nearly gone now. It’s pond dry. Its seasons confused. Its memories scattered in strange little objects left behind. At the rim of the dry pond sits a small figure who feels something familiar returning as a storm gathers in the distance. A pull toward a life it can almost remember. …

Three voices. Three eras. Three winters. This intermission takes you on a quiet journey across seven centuries. From a medieval lament, to a wandering German poet in the seventeenth century, to an American winter in the 1800s. Each poem notices winter in its own way, but all three remind us that p…