I've been listening to this song a lot since I heard it on the radio and had to scramble for Shazam on my phone to tag it.

It's a joyful song. A big happy noise.
I love discovering new stuff to love.

Robert Pinsky is not a new love. When I used to work in the dungeons of grad school as an assistant to the then-treasurer of the traditional and esteemed Dante Society, I used to get a geeky high anytime I sent the former US Poet Laureate an envelope to pay his membership dues... It led to the following exchange, which always makes me grin. There seems to be a pattern of odd celebrity crushes in my life...and that's the way I like it.

Happy Bunny Day to all who celebrate.

Paschal

by Robert Pinsky

Easter was the old North

Goddess of the dawn.

She rises daily in the East

And yearly in spring for the great

Paschal candle of the sun.

Her name lingers like a spot

Of gravy in the figured vestment

Of the language of the Britains.

Her totem the randy bunny.

Our very Thursdays and Wednesdays

Are stained by syllables of thunder

And Woden's frenzy.

O my fellow-patriots loyal to this

Our modern world of high heels,

Vaccination, brain surgery—

May they pass over us, the old

Jovial raptors, Apollonian flayers,

Embodiments. Egg-hunt,

Crucifixion. Supper of encrypted

Dishes: bitter, unrisen, a platter

Compass of martyrdom,

Ground-up apples and walnuts

In sweet wine to embody mortar

Of affliction, babies for bricks.

Legible traces of the species

That devises the angel of death

Sailing over our doorpost

Smeared with sacrifice.