Quotable

"I've had others on the show whose work was crowd-funded," Annette began, "but never anyone who was cloud-QUOTED into fame." Orville laughed. "Yeah, and I don't do social media - never have, so I was doubly surprised when stuff started happening." "You've been compared to Wendell Berry and Garrison Keillor," she continued. "I don't know those boys," he interjected, "but I'll check them out." Annette stumbled a bit and then recovered. "I ... uh ... I think you'll like them," she said (in a kind of quiet disbelief). "They write about everyday life - real people doing real things. People think your poems land in the same honest, straightforward place." "Well, I think folks are pretty much done gushing about sunlight falling on leaves and breezes wafting through the graveyard," Orville mused. "I think they want to get down to brass tacks about love and money and free donuts at work." Annette fell silent, skipping down on the page to find a question that would fit into the flow. "People wanna talk about dreams that didn't work out, sneaking a smoke in the garage, and keeping regular." "Uh ... yeah, they do," was the only thing Annette could think to say (and the NPR interview had gone viral by the time she turned the mic off).