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on the saint lawrence / the ice is forming / the morning gives nothing back // that the night withheld because / the day and the night / have this icy truce 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

If I were a bus driver And you were a skin-diver, Would you take a ride with me To the bottom of the sea? If I were a bus driver, Would you take a ride with me? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Should I wait for you or should I roll on? Will you, won't you, won't you, will you get in? You're looking at me like you think I'm kiddin'. If I were a garbage man Emptying your garbage can, Would you throw your...

i. after completion exhaling the morning gray inhaling the thought of sunrise recalling consummation and the softness of the darkness the solidity of love the bright future laid out ii. extended family the strain of travel to you your welcoming preparations your father and your brother your buoyant cousin visiting we navigate together we begin to build a life This is a public episode. If you'd lik...

alternating snow and rain and freezing and melting infinitely it seems till this infinite now sees its shadow in a spring 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

the bare ruined limbs / of these trees contain / hidden rivers of the sun // where shadows not yet begun / feed the dreams of birds / and their silent songs 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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i woke up at four / and stepped out the door / to meet my uber driver // who delivered me over / the river to fly / up to the 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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The fog / Undid / The bag / The lid / Just long / Enough / To fling / The chaff / Aside / To show / The dead / The way / To rise / Through haze 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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if the sun were to rise and shine brightly without fail then its brightness might grow dismal in boredom so instead we get this gray loveliness 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 river and the sky are divided by a thin margin of the skin of a horizon and in the river the sky appears by and 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

1. In the dark, the light Of my phone’s screen casts shadows Across my wife’s face. 2. Give them a platform To stand on, and they will show You how they can dance. 3. Substack is to X As New Orleans is to Hell As poetry is. 4. There are poets here But these Procrustean screens Cause their lines to wrap. 5. James Joyce could be here Gradually amassing His pomes penyeach. 6. Bashō writes haiku And p...

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riding the exo to work through the snow three hours ahead of me in the mystery of time my beloved sends me love and 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

montreal sunrise from my beloved's train ride through the snow to work she sitting there looking out the window and i looking through her eyes 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 old railroad bridge is made new in the calm catastrophe of the midwinter sunrise on the old columbia river made new too 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 cable bridge and beyond it the old railroad bridge and then the sun aswim like a memory rising through the cream in my morning cup 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

this highway i drive at sunset takes me through layers of memory that are parts of the present because like bill said was is really is 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