Bryana Joy's "Kabul Airport"

The Daily Poem

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🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Bryana Joy is a writer, poet, and full-time artist who believes in the subtle power of Story to challenge and change us. In 2018, she launched the Letters From The Sea Tower, a handmade monthly subscription letter full of watercolor sketches, paintings, and snippets of glory from the Great Books. Her poetry has appeared in over two dozen literary magazines, including Beloit Poetry Journal, Chestnut Review, and Blue Earth Review. In her shop, she offers original watercolor paintings, travel sketches, poetry workshops, poetry subscriptions, poetry feedback, and illustrated literary fine art prints. Bryana takes delight in Celtic art, snail mail, thunderstorms, loose-leaf tea, green countrysides, and the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. She has lived in Turkey, East Texas, and England, and currently resides in Eastern Pennsylvania with her husband. You can follow her work on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Daily Poem. I'm Heidi White and today is Wednesday, August 18th. And today I'm
0:07.7	going to veer from the Daily Poem tradition, I guess, by sharing with you a very, very recent poem,
0:16.0	a poem written actually within the last couple of days and posted on social media by the poet.
0:22.0	The poet is Brianna Joy.
0:24.6	She is a writer, a poet, and a full-time artist.
0:27.9	She lives in eastern Pennsylvania with her husband, but she's traveled all over the world.
0:32.0	In 2018, Brianna Joy launched the letters from the Sea Tower, which is a handmade monthly subscription
0:39.0	letter full of, quote, watercolor sketches, paintings, and snippets of glory from the great
0:45.7	books, end quote. I think that sounds absolutely delightful. You can follow her on Instagram,
0:52.7	Twitter, and Facebook.
1:02.8	On Instagram, her handle is at underscore Brianna, spelled B-R-Y-A-N-A- underscore joy.
1:05.6	And you can follow her work.
1:07.4	She's fabulous.
1:10.8	And I've just, like I said, discovered her this week. And the poem that I'm going to
1:13.3	read for you today is called Kabul Airport. And this is how it goes. Don't look away from the
1:20.9	scrambling on the tarmac. All those feet. So many feet with nowhere to go. If you do not have mercy on us, Lord, I don't blame you,
1:30.8	but have mercy on the three small boys in their red shirts and every woman.
1:39.2	I love this little poem. It speaks, I think, to the power of poetry, to respond to things that are
1:49.6	happening in the real world. This particular poem took the experience. This particular poem took
1:59.3	the crisis in Afghanistan and made it into something concrete to me.
2:03.9	The image of the three small boys in their red shirts is so powerful.
2:10.0	And what poetry can do when it is done well is to respond in the moment to some kind of intense experience, some kind of change,
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