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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

electricity / pulses through the trees / the sunrise blazing behind // the hotel drapes of the gods / the sidewalks empty / the runways ready 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

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

the blood of the sun / is in the river / this morning everlasting // thinking ahead to later / recollecting this / you and i here now 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

what molecules move / through the veiny leaves / of the trees and how i ask // animal exhalations / plus water drawn up / to breathe with 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

no sun to be seen / in the rainy scene / of montreal this morning // only les nuances de gris / and the upside down / world reflected there 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

lever du soleil / sur le saint-laurent / mon amour à la maison // birds and clouds adrift across / the bilingual sky / au petit matin // rising of the sun / on the saint lawrence / my love back at home asleep // les oiseaux et nuages volent / dans le ciel bilingue / in early morning This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visi...

the loss of three hours / due to flying east / against the spinning planet // hints at how time is a lie / and sunrise a ruse / 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

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

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

the old railroad bridge / east of town has seen / fifty-thousand sunrises // and carried cargo across / the river of time / that flows forever 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 ball of the sun / suspended above / the river the grasping trees // my feet planted on the earth / beneath the surface / of things what what what 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

seven ducks and one / lone great blue heron / on the river this morning // my arrival unnoticed / though perhaps noted / am i friend or foe 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 mountains surround / bozeman like cupped hands / the sunrise comes late over // ragged ridges' majesty / catching hold of wires / strung with pearls of 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