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sunrise as culmination of patient watchfulness of carefully balancing and editing the sky to let it be what it simply is perfection in the moment’s pause 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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be patient like the trees | deliverance is at hand | these days we seem to think a lot | but why not go for a walk | down to the river at sunrise | light your own lamp and 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

above the river the clouds drift | blue curds in a curdled cup | across the cusp of morning | allowing themselves to receive | the broken sun still hidden | the gentle revelation 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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early morning flight path descends to montreal as the sun's ascension presses pink and orange up against the wind wall of the cold-sky river flight attendants secure the cabin for landing as the bare limbs of night prepare for the morning and the winter begins to succumb to the spring sunrise vomiting love in violent beauty as the morning gives birth in purple majesty to the golden-splayed day and...

up again to greet the post-traumatic gray katrina hangover of a new orleans catfish  lenten-fast friday mississippi dawn 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

fingernail moon rising ahead of the sunrise above a palm palm trees standing in ecstasy perpetual for the sunrise riverboat waits for coffee at sunrise and booze when the sun sets mississippi river sunrise music echoes big easy dreams 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

From the end of Canal Street, looking across The river to Algiers and McDonogh and Whitney, I ponder the sun's gain and loss, And whether the weather will suddenly hit me With sheets of rain and fists of wind Like Monday evening when we rode in a jitney Through flash-flooded streets where we grimaced and grinned At the faces of folks who were fleeing for cover Or wading through puddles, clothes so...

streetcars of desire bringing the sunrise after a night of flash floods magician mississippi continues its sleight of hand to the gulf 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

nullification of the rising sun in jackson square by the fog nonetheless i do declare i'm glad to be way down in new orleans 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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still asleep i leap from my bed into the confusion of the day the sun just risen and blue sky surrounding white and gold and green white van and black truck nose to nose in snow the driveway and sidewalk clear the zen scene of yang and yin squaring off under a late winter sun on high drive a car affixes its beams on me perhaps driverless as if doubting the sunrise and i look beyond to the gold-rus...

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connective tissue of the morning light even when the sun’s obscured and the houses are inured in their own malaise soon come brighter days 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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ordinary sky / but a second look / reveals terrible omens // portents of oblivion / as well as a pale / washed golden sweetness 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 mind loves to learn / the sun loves to rise / the people love to gather // and look in each other’s eyes / that’s the way it goes / as the planet turns 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 windstorm yesterday left the sky a dog's breakfast of frantic clouds hiding the sunrise this morning. The dream I woke from before looking out my bedroom window was of finding myself alone in my wife's kitchen with my mother and my mother-in-law cheerfully teaming up to cook and clean and mother-hen me to within inches of my sanity. Then (in the dream) an email arrived from yet a third motheri...

do you dare to rise do you dare to turn earth and sun and drifting clouds the compass points of my soul rising from my bed rising from the dead 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 roof ridge points to changing skies where vanishing geese honk and fly the scent of buds faintly floating in the echo of their shrill cry and blood red turns to amber orange and cars like waves pass by pass by on the highway by the river feel the flowing to the great sea This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomo...

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if you know the way to the sunrise then meet me there and we shall see what the day has up its sleeve a magician’s dove or a push and shove Potter Poems is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jopomoj...