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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

when i was a child i'd sometimes visit my friend's farm out past paha on the paha-packard road but never did we see such a sunset 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

High Drive's your best bet for viewing the sunrise In the winter months in old Spokane. The bluffs Stretch out below you with pines receding down To the railroad tracks and Hangman Creek, the highway That goes past pieces of my past, Spangle and Plaza and the rolling Palouse hills. This morning I look at the sky above those hills With changing colors that announce the coming sunrise And foretell a...

the blue of the sky the gold of the sun the white and the green of the clouds and trees and the scent of pine needles hanging in the frozen air 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 the beginning of the day open your eyes and breathe in deeply and then let your breath out naturally as the sun rises 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 reader this is your friend jonathan reporting live from thirty below isn't it lovely thank you for reading and for existing 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 cold ground beneath my thinly shoed feet feels as though it could freeze me from the ankles up and turn me into a tree dreaming of the spring 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 believe there should be a universal basic income for poets and that the definition of poet should include everyone. If there must be a test, let it be that you have the ability to breathe, either on your own, or with assistance. Let's call that a haiku and if you'd like to write an actual haiku then go ahead and do that, but, even so, you are a poet. If you are alive and sentient and can breathe...

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the snow fell the sun rose the sky danced the trees dreamt the winter weathered 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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