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be like the sunrise my friend the weeds sprout with the tulips the gulls cackle on the shore be the beauty of the sky despite the persistence of darkness eyes on the prize tune out the noise Potter Poems is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscri...

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again the morning bodes well thunder above sky below my poetic vigor grows even if the sunrise hides and no one seems to see i will relax and work Potter Poems is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit...

i surrender to the sunrise and make my escape into the calamitous dawning of the fortuitous day taking hold of the moment letting the pressure ignite me 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

* second photo and poem for paid subscribers everyone [unpaywalled following a one-year embargo] traveling into the dawn one hand on the steering wheel you in the passenger seat embarking with great vigor like a ram breaking free and yet gently holding each strand of love This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo....

my hometown enduring the sun making bold to rise the empty canal ready to resume its seasonal flow past the calm of the backyard my self grieving to be leaving 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 my dream just after sleep came the birds were whooping it up outside interrupting our sleep but in fact we had drifted off in the solidarity and discipline of sleep till 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

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fellowship of feathered friends their calls creating a soundscape in the freshness of morning are they settling their arguments resolving diversity in the hopefulness 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

* second photo and poem for paid subscribers everyone [unpaywalled following a one-year embargo] courage to radically change may be required tomorrow now is the time to prepare consider the chaos to come be ready to ride the wave coming beyond the horizon 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/subs...

the shock of muted morning the danger of crossing the street alleviated by embracing the normalcy of the sunriseless day and waking up to every sign Potter Poems is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visi...

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the river delivers the sun collaborate with your beloved to receive it with joy enjoy the invasive reeds but resolve to remove them move forward into the bright 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

* ǝuoʎɹǝʌǝ sɹǝqᴉɹɔsqns pᴉɐd ɹoɟ ɯǝod puɐ oʇoɥd puoɔǝs [oƃɹɐqɯǝ ɹɐǝʎ-ǝuo ɐ ƃuᴉʍolloɟ pǝllɐʍʎɐdun] 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 as culmination of patient watchfulness of carefully balancing and editing the sky to let it be what it simply is perfection in the moment’s pause 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

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be patient like the trees | deliverance is at hand | these days we seem to think a lot | but why not go for a walk | down to the river at sunrise | light your own lamp and see 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

above the river the clouds drift | blue curds in a curdled cup | across the cusp of morning | allowing themselves to receive | the broken sun still hidden | the gentle revelation 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

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early morning flight path descends to montreal as the sun's ascension presses pink and orange up against the wind wall of the cold-sky river flight attendants secure the cabin for landing as the bare limbs of night prepare for the morning and the winter begins to succumb to the spring sunrise vomiting love in violent beauty as the morning gives birth in purple majesty to the golden-splayed day and...

up again to greet the post-traumatic gray katrina hangover of a new orleans catfish  lenten-fast friday mississippi 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

fingernail moon rising ahead of the sunrise above a palm palm trees standing in ecstasy perpetual for the sunrise riverboat waits for coffee at sunrise and booze when the sun sets mississippi river sunrise music echoes big easy dreams 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

From the end of Canal Street, looking across The river to Algiers and McDonogh and Whitney, I ponder the sun's gain and loss, And whether the weather will suddenly hit me With sheets of rain and fists of wind Like Monday evening when we rode in a jitney Through flash-flooded streets where we grimaced and grinned At the faces of folks who were fleeing for cover Or wading through puddles, clothes so...

streetcars of desire bringing the sunrise after a night of flash floods magician mississippi continues its sleight of hand to the gulf 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

nullification of the rising sun in jackson square by the fog nonetheless i do declare i'm glad to be way down in new orleans 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