Hey, this just in sort of! Last week on NPR’s nationally syndicated The Writer’s Almanac literature-on-the-radio show, Garrison Keillor’s lackadaisically golden voice dripped its trademark maple syrup tones all over a poem by local writer Bruce Taylor. Listen and/or read here.

The poem in question, “Middle-Aged Men, Leaning,” comes from Taylor’s Pity the World. If I may summarize: middle-aged men do different kinds of yard work throughout the seasons. Um, anchored within a profound suburban landscape. Um, and in a kind of twist, it ends with summer, and not winter, as one might expect. Bam!

Taylor used to teach at UWEC is a Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing and American Literature. I actually went through UWEC’s Creative Writing program, and that dripping syrup metaphor is all I really have to show for it.* And I’m probably just hungry. Money well spent, folks.

At any rate, a big “That’s awesome!” goes out to Mr. Bruce Taylor.

*By no fault of my excellent professors.