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looking east and west / i see birds and clouds / i see pavement and bridges and hills // i see the suggestion of / sunrise and blue skies / what is it i 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

the morning of my / travel day i look / outside to see what the sky // portends for flying machines / a glimmer of sun / seems to say let's fly // even better luck / a pileated / woodpecker arrives as if // to say today you might die / but even so it's / a good day to fly This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomojo....

sixty chunks of ice / floating near the shore / one for each of my fifty-nine // years just now melting away / plus the sixtieth / one I'm standing on 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

faced with a gray sky / i stand a moment / at the dull tip of a point / sticking out in the morning / into the river's / melting and flowing 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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pre-raphaelite / pigments in the sky / shot out from the horizon // above a house and its trees / bruised blue electric / vermillion gold 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

continue turning / away from winter / from within the winter cold // hear the birds and see / the steam drift up the / branches of another 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

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the gulls have gathered / in Lac Sainte-Louis / as if occupying seats // in the auditorium / of early morning / for the sunrise show // they've paid their tickets / and now sit and watch / the sun break the horizon // its reflection resembling / a golden comet / rising from the depths // and who then am i / the unpaid usher / of the solemn occasion // or the human element // mostly unheeded / by b...

* alternate photo and poem for paid subscribers everyone Driving down the street as Monday dawned Behind a truck designed to enjoy life I squinted as the world before me yawned And winter kinged me where I felt I'd pawned My hope of springtime with the queen my wife Driving down the street as Monday dawned And Tuesday became Friday getting conned By Wednesday brandishing a sharpened knife I squint...

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* alternate photo and poem for paid subscribers everyone past the halfway point to nowhere i go in search of the broken day for some reason happiness wells up inside the cracked bowl of my soul 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 sun an orange / left on the counter / i wake early with symptoms / from my breakthrough covid case / needing vitamin / c and spewing germs 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 shade is pulled above our bed, and through The silken hanging drapes the sun affixes Its beam to cast our shadows on the blue, The pale-blue, green-blue walls where color mixes With a vibrant painting painted by your mother, Of pink and white flowers in a vase That seem to be finale of some other Suspended history of time and place. Imagine Wallace Stevens played by Bill Murray and the emperor...

* alternate photo and poem for paid subscribers everyone exit to nowhere or the secret lair of the prognosticator who comes out for the sunrise seeing none retreats into his shadow 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

halfway to halfway / between winter and / summer according to lore // no sunrise is a good sign / no shadow's showing / and river's flowing 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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Jesus in 1920 / was erected on the shore / in front of Saint Joachim / to stand there and herald the / freezing and the melting and / the seabirds celebrating / the hope of Jesus' shadow. 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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Photos by Jonathan Potter ⓒ 2024 1. (7:20am) After days of gray and cold and no sunrise to speak of my beloved suggested I should look out the window. There, I was surprised to see, the sky was a backdrop of mauve, pink, tangerine, and gold. 2. (7:23am) I hopped in the car and drove down Saint Charles Boulevard where the naked trees greeted the rising sun with grateful limbs spread out and their b...

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