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chink in the armor of the autumn sky allows us to see the burning furnace fire of the sunrise pink and tangerine as the rain begins 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

pink river morning with yellows and blues and november waterfowl floating across the glassy surface of the day getting underway 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 poem based on a dream from 1988 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 Northern Pacific Kennewick-Pasco Bridge 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

at heartache o'clock* / i find myself here / where i grew up but different // now different but the same / the same old sunrise / but very different 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

serendipity finds me constantly the sun is always rising somewhere and setting somewhere else and wherever i am there i am 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

sunrise delivery 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 / at the confluence / of the columbia and // the snake transmit messages / of am-fm / disconsolation 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

high beams in the rain / the driver intent / on getting somewhere as soon // as possible i stop time / climb in next to him / and write this poem 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

song 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 bridge is burning / into memory / as if its solidity // has crossed the blank gray chasm / between mind and soul / to convey the sun 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

ditty as 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

a cautionary tale 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 woman named Ursula went / To an eighty-third birthday event / And danced on the table / In a dress made of sable / Till all her beer money was spent 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

river graffiti reflected in fog luminous gloominess soothing my moodiness waterfowl follow the sunken sunrise 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

dream as poem / poem as dream 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

10 x 10 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

a sort of 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

dear people 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

song 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

taking the long view / of what you see now / might just mean relaxing to // let what's happening happen / take a breath and let / it out as clouds drift by 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

in lieu of sunrise / Leonard Cohen looking out / across Montreal 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 attempt at turning Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” into a 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

7 x 7 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