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doggerel 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'm driving a scenic byway somewhere in the North Cascades. Somewhere off the main freeway. I'm nearly out of gas and feeling a little worried about finding a gas station. There's a small town nearby and I hope it has one but for some reason I decide to pull over on the outskirts of town where there's a siding in a wooded area. I walk the half-mile or so to the town, keeping a lookout for a gas st...

pantoum 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

drove from calgary / all day yesterday / and fell into my old bed // woke up this morning and found / the same old sun ri- / sing in my backyard 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

i wait for my flight / and watch the blood-red / crown of the sun form above // the island of montreal / saint joseph’s crutches / cluttering my mind 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 oratory / with all its crutches / is there on the horizon // a wall of clouds behind it / and the sun climbing / up that wall for me 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 as poem, poem as 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

early run to the / dilapidated / charming beaconsfield yacht club // i arrive in time to see / this trail of gold-leaf / breadcrumbs guiding me 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

i was awaiting / trial when the sun / rose above the reaching trees // and the clouds allowed the sky / to release my chains / and set the day free 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

very like tony soprano but not exactly him 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 grandmother emerged from another dimension stitching realities together from the depths of her being, the gathering dark of antimatter at her back, the morning light of her childhood streaming in the window, her sewing machine in actuality a time machine, the lenses of her glasses ground down to thin membranes of air, memories slowly gobbling up the future, dreams quickly creating dancing part...

the importance of / the sunrise on a / wednesday morning cannot be // overstated but if you / sleep through it dreaming / that can be good 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

Are you ready for the Latin test? 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

mon amour and i / wait by the river / for the sun to deliver // its message of morning light / written in golden / lines on the water 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

begin with the sun / god's burning thumbprint / rising over calgary // pressed into the horizon / as seen from nose hill / the clouds like children 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

stream of teenage consciousness typing practice circa 1982, second installment 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

i stand barefoot on / the 14th street bridge / to catch this calgary sun // rising over the city / telling me that i / arrived just in time 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

sun behind mountains/ beginning to rise / on some unseen horizon // there are trees to get around / rough places to make / peace with this morning 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

stream of teenage consciousness typing practice circa 1982 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

gold in the river / not fool's gold either / gold for the early riser // the sun hands it out for free / cast in your line and / you will see 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