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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

sapphic stanzas 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

branches dangle down / from the giant fir / as if above the rising // sun coming up from below / the source of all light / at the start of 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

sapphic stanzas 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

every now and then / a lovely phrase that / every now is then but then // there comes a time when the sun / reveals that then is / now and shall ever be 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

Sapphic stanzas (a loose attempt) 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

my mother tells me / the tv is broken / i tell her to take a look // at this sunrise and listen / to the birds in the / pauses between cars 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 repetition / of day after day / is an opportunity // to dance to the music of / the wild strangeness of / the ordinary 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

d.h. lawrence said / to start with the sun / to reconnect with the world // get out of your car and walk / you are not separate / from the air you breathe 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 spiders and i / weave a web to catch / our prey in the morning light // july is rife with spiders / and poets setting / clever sunrise traps 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

Doggerel, if you will. 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