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the sun is a golden train / rolling up the sky to bring / a cargo of warmth and love // from the east to the west / lay your head upon my breast / my darling do not cry 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

song 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 loneliness of / seven o'clock in / the morning in october // is like a glass of champagne / left out overnight / for the morning light 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

abbreviated sonnet 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

9x9 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

how lucky to be / sprung from eternal / weirdness into this realm of // strange beauty and the trials / and tribulations / of being alive 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

back in kennewick i rise again and make my way down to the river. a few ducks and geese are gathered here, oblivious to my arrival. no one else around, i climb up on a concrete block beside the shoreline and stand here like a statue of man left here after the apocalypse. i don't exist but still see and love. see and love This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscriber...

ascending peets hill / in the starry dawn / with my dog toby to see // the sun scrabble up over / the crazies east of / bozeman where we are 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

driving through the fog / of the idaho / panhandle this fine morning // my mother riding shotgun / my dog in the back / montana or bust 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

dream 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

song 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

suddenly the sun / in morning splendor / appears on the horizon // without a care in the world / like a dharma bum / riding a freight train 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

searching the sunrise / for an answer to / the question of existence // the origin is the end / the end is the start / deep within my heart 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

how is it that i / live in paradise / the paradise of the now // when all around me the night / resists surrender / to the rising 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

sonnet 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

back where i began / for better or worse / too much traveling around // the dog wants to go outside / i step out with him / and greet 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

how can the sunrise / heal my morning blues / on this sunday coming down // the first day of october / with ice-water dew / on the bare branches 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 mighty columbia / beginning to break its fall / into the great pacific / spreads out a carpet of mud, / turns its back to the rising / sun to face its destiny: / the ferocious rolling sea 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

song 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

sunrise filtered through the mist / along the alsea river, / the morning becoming light, / the darkness becoming day / by gradual variations, / autumn preparing for death, / death preparing for the night 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

where neskowin and hawk creeks / join just before emptying / into the pacific, we / stand, my love and i, to eye / the rising sun, the morning / mist, the light reflected on / the wet sand, the rising tide 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

rain falling on the river, / the same river but never / the same, the sunrise stretching / like a bridge beneath the clouds, / the same sunrise but never / the same, the rain not raining / very hard, the sun rising 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

sagebrush, rabbitbrush, broken / glass at my feet, i climb up / to the hills west gazebo, / yakima river bending / into the columbia / below, both flowing gladly / into the pale sunrise light 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 sunrise a gash / in the malaise of / this socked-in monday morning / carpet woven of the sun / from the frayed ends of / the end of summer 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 river was my / consolation when / i suffered the desert of / those days of youthful yearning / and nothing has changed / now that i am old 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