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Wake, Butterfly: Find the Water with Manny Loley
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:13:00
Publish Date: 2026-05-12 05:00:00
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Manny Loley invites listeners to make an offering.

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Matsuo Bashō wrote:

Wake, butterfly— 
it’s late, we’ve miles 
to go together.

Poetry magazine presents Wake, Butterfly, a series of intimate portraits that invite listeners to keep creating. The series is produced by Rachel James with sound design by Axel Kacoutié.

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Here’s an edited version of Manny Loley’s prompt:

Create a poem in four steps. First: Find a body of water to sit with and listen. Let it connect with the water inside of you. And let the sound that it makes work on your body and your mind and your heart. Second: Build your relationship with the water. Listen for what the water has awakened inside of you. What do you feel? Where do you feel it in your body? What stories are brought to the surface? Third: Follow the reverberations. Write down some of your thoughts, your feelings, your memories. Don't worry about spelling or grammar, or about making things sound writerly or whether they make sense or not. Fourth: Make an offering to the water. Share what the water gave life to in the form of your poem. Touch the water and give thanks.

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The poem “REMEMBERING A CRESCENT MOON/DAH YIITA BEE HANIIH” that Loley reads in the episode was originally published by Arkansas International and can be read in full on their website.


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