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still asleep i leap from my bed into the confusion of the day the sun just risen and blue sky surrounding white and gold and green white van and black truck nose to nose in snow the driveway and sidewalk clear the zen scene of yang and yin squaring off under a late winter sun on high drive a car affixes its beams on me perhaps driverless as if doubting the sunrise and i look beyond to the gold-rus...

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connective tissue of the morning light even when the sun’s obscured and the houses are inured in their own malaise soon come brighter days 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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ordinary sky / but a second look / reveals terrible omens // portents of oblivion / as well as a pale / washed golden sweetness 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 mind loves to learn / the sun loves to rise / the people love to gather // and look in each other’s eyes / that’s the way it goes / as the planet turns 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 windstorm yesterday left the sky a dog's breakfast of frantic clouds hiding the sunrise this morning. The dream I woke from before looking out my bedroom window was of finding myself alone in my wife's kitchen with my mother and my mother-in-law cheerfully teaming up to cook and clean and mother-hen me to within inches of my sanity. Then (in the dream) an email arrived from yet a third motheri...

do you dare to rise do you dare to turn earth and sun and drifting clouds the compass points of my soul rising from my bed rising from the dead 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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the roof ridge points to changing skies where vanishing geese honk and fly the scent of buds faintly floating in the echo of their shrill cry and blood red turns to amber orange and cars like waves pass by pass by on the highway by the river feel the flowing to the great sea This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomo...

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if you know the way to the sunrise then meet me there and we shall see what the day has up its sleeve a magician’s dove or a push and shove 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 jopomoj...

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* alternate photo and poem for paid subscribers everyone the dream of travel anywhere away from the malaise of winter by train by car by plane by boat by bike by foot bye bye bye bye bye 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 ugly buildings / paying your homely / homage to this delicate // late february sunrise / breathe in the light and / receive your blessing 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

i'm standing over / the spokane river / looking east after the sun / rose behind dysthimc clouds / and peeked through above / stolid distant hills 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

Six Haiku at Sunrise 1. Wires stretched across the horrible beautiful sky, sending love and hate. 2. Utility pole, electric crucifix, stands in the blood-orange air. 3. Globe willow next door, revived from traumatic death, buds in the sunrise. 4. My neighborhood sky stretching to infinity, blue, orange, pink, gold. 5. The sun itself clears the cold horizon and shoots its rays through bruised cloud...

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O river of my childhood longings lost, / The sunrise of my youth now gone, / With clouds now crossed / The skyline of my daily dawn. / And yet the glory and the freshness still / Remains in what I want and wish and 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

yesterday's bright sky / gives way to snowflakes / turning into gray raindrops // in this season of sorrow / asking tomorrow / what can i borrow 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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