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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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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