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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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the sunrise disguised as a veil across the face of god preferring to remain hidden before this minyan of trees their silent kaddish 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 sky consuming itself at the obscene end of day at the obstinate windblown unquiet end of this day the glowing hobgoblin clouds eating the plum-stained apron that's all that's left of the 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

southbound freight train crossing the river for several days the sun's not been seen i thought this morning would be the same but the bruises in the sky began to gather into a sunrise scene and the feeling of being battered began to feel like being alive till the sun blasted through these thick clouds like a southbound train with singing wheels . This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss...

this river brings time from the mountain streams irrigating the farmlands with the minutes and the hours of the dawns and dusks of eternity 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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sunrise hexagrams start my days even when there is no sunrise to speak of but only the dregs of last year's roses and this gravel road 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