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sapphic stanzas This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

branches dangle down / from the giant fir / as if above the rising // sun coming up from below / the source of all light / at the start of day This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

sapphic stanzas This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

every now and then / a lovely phrase that / every now is then but then // there comes a time when the sun / reveals that then is / now and shall ever be This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

Sapphic stanzas (a loose attempt) This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

my mother tells me / the tv is broken / i tell her to take a look // at this sunrise and listen / to the birds in the / pauses between cars This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

the repetition / of day after day / is an opportunity // to dance to the music of / the wild strangeness of / the ordinary This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

sonnet This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

d.h. lawrence said / to start with the sun / to reconnect with the world // get out of your car and walk / you are not separate / from the air you breathe This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

the spiders and i / weave a web to catch / our prey in the morning light // july is rife with spiders / and poets setting / clever sunrise traps This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

Doggerel, if you will. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

Hammock stretched between / two palm trees near the ocean. / That's the haiku form. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

radio towers / across the river / have been there as long as i // can remember but they seem / newly fashioned in / the strange light of dawn This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

a dream recounted in haiku stanzas This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

A continuation of the Spokane Stanzas, which begin in the book Tulips for Elsie. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

the geese flew across / just as i pointed / my camera at the sunrise // no time to think about it / only the instant / seized in the instant This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

sonnet This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

the modeh ani / on my mind i rise / from an anxious sleep to greet // the flowers the grass the leaves / the sanctuary / of love surrounding This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

black-eyed susan sunrise / on a chain-link fence / the sun overwhelming // a tree of heaven along / the highway looking / north towards heaven This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

Pushkin Sonnet This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

Spokane Stanzas This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

we are in the depths / of some summer now / so deep we don’t even know // what year it is we just drive / into the furnace / of the dawning day This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

haiku villanelle This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

fir limb drapery / sets the sunrise scene / the maestro of the morning // arises from bed to see / behold friends the sun / i give it to you This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

sonnet This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe