{"id":29444,"date":"2019-03-12T12:10:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/podcasts\/?p=29444"},"modified":"2019-03-12T12:10:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:10:20","slug":"lowell-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/podcasts\/2019\/03\/12\/lowell-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowell: &#8220;Water&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fschisnell%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fschisnell%2Flowell_water_jac_kolton_walt.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chisnell.com%2Fpodcasts%2F2019%2F03%2F12%2Flowell-water%2F#mode-Light&border-000000&progress-000000\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"100%\" height=\"165\" frameborder=\"0\" id=\"blubrryplayer-1\" class=\"blubrryplayer\" title=\"Blubrry Podcast Player\"><\/iframe><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast (questions-posed): <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/schisnell\/content.blubrry.com\/schisnell\/lowell_water_jac_kolton_walt.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.chisnell.com\/podcasts\/?powerpress_pinw=29444-questions-posed');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/schisnell\/content.blubrry.com\/schisnell\/lowell_water_jac_kolton_walt.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"lowell_water_jac_kolton_walt.mp3\">Download<\/a> | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('29444-questions-posed');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_29444-questions-posed\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_29444-questions-posed_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe src=&quot;https:\/\/player.blubrry.com\/?media_url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.blubrry.com%2Fschisnell%2Fcontent.blubrry.com%2Fschisnell%2Flowell_water_jac_kolton_walt.mp3&amp;podcast_link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chisnell.com%2Fpodcasts%2F2019%2F03%2F12%2Flowell-water%2F#mode-Light&amp;border-000000&amp;progress-000000&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot; width=&quot;100%&quot; height=&quot;165&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; id=&quot;blubrryplayer-2&quot; class=&quot;blubrryplayer&quot; title=&quot;Blubrry Podcast Player&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" onclick=\"javascript: this.select();\" onfocus=\"javascript: this.select();\" style=\"width: 70%;\" readOnly><\/p><p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; next_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;2_3&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.20.2&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Jac, Walt, and Kolton uncover the melancholy of cold stones.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_3&#8243;][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; fullwidth=&#8221;off&#8221; specialty=&#8221;off&#8221; prev_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243;][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type=&#8221;1_2&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.20.2&#8243;]<\/p>\n<h3 align=\"left\">Water\u00a0by Robert Lowell<\/h3>\n<div>It was a Maine lobster town\u2014<br \/>each morning boatloads of hands<br \/>pushed off for granite<br \/>quarries on the islands,<\/p>\n<p>and left dozens of bleak\u00a0<br \/>white frame houses stuck<br \/>like oyster shells<br \/>on a hill of rock,<\/p>\n<p>and below us, the sea lapped<br \/>the raw little match-stick\u00a0<br \/>mazes of a weir,<br \/>where the fish for bait were trapped.<\/p>\n<p>Remember? 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