EPISODE: Turn the Earth with K Weber
Season 3 Episode 8
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We get by with good tunes and good friends. So the bad things don’t suck AS MUCH.
Hi, it’s Cara. Welcome to the sunshine lounge: a feel-good mix of today’s music and poetry. Today you’ll hear tracks by MICHELLE, SuperKnova, Ky Hollis and more. With poems by K Weber.
K Weber (she/her) is an Ohio writer with 10 online books of poetry. She obtained her Creative Writing BA in 1999 from Miami University. K writes independently and collaboratively, having created poems from words donated by more than 300 people since 2018. K has poems featured in publications such as The Hooghly Review, Writer’s Digest, Fevers of the Mind & her photography/digital collages appear in literary journals including Barren Magazine and Nightingale & Sparrow. Much of K's work (free in PDF and some in audiobook format) and her publishing credits are on her website.
So unclench your jaw, take a deep breath, and settle in for golden hour in the sunshine lounge.
This song sounds like a nap in a patch of sun. It’s got a warm gentleness that’s perfect for these poems.
Not every episode tells a story with words. This one is purely about the vibes. This song has more of that gentleness with a chill. Like a thin cloud passing over the sun. The fog of memory. Nostalgia.
“Flannel was a hug before the strangle of neuropathy but time’s copper loses its brass like a penny.”
I once wrote that nostalgia is “wishing for a simpler time, or a time when you were more simple.” When it was doll parts, Army jackets, and chokers.
It’s that strangle after the hug. Panic. Pain.
“Put these lovely people in your empty cart before the fighting starts. Soon they are the keepsakes in your junk drawer.” There is a simultaneous depth and superficiality to being online. It’s easy to get lost in the screen world. “Platitude and fever.”
Angst! SuperKnova rocks on this track.
If I could put an Etta Marcus song in every episode, I would. This song is rainclouds and dewy air. Getting lost in the fog.
If you’re disabled/chronically ill you feel this. Literally. The storm arrives in the body first.
“It’s getting too loud, let’s turn the music down.” Take a quiet moment to nurse the pain.
A return to gentleness. The clouds have passed in time to see the stars.
“Bound for everywhere, words plant themselves like funeral flowers in a lap on the ride home.”
I thought this episode needed an R&B break. Like those word flowers swaying in the breeze. I love this Adanna Duru track. Dawn breaks softly. Unfolds.
This song is a morning cup of coffee. The sun returns. “It’s a party in my head and no one’s invited.” Peace. That gentle joy.
“I love my life, or maybe just the parts of me that can turn the earth.” We are more than what we do. We experience. Feel. That warm patch of sun, the chill, the fog. All of it.
Thanks so much for listening. You can connect with K on her website and on Instagram at midwesternskirt. If you would like to submit poems to be read on the show, fill out the form here. You can stay up to date with episodes and extras on Instagram at thesunshineloungefm. And make sure to subscribe on YouTube and here on Substack to get episodes sent straight to your inbox.
Have the best day you can have today, and I’ll see you soon.
Cara
love love love this! thank you!!!☀️