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the sun an orange / left on the counter / i wake early with symptoms / from my breakthrough covid case / needing vitamin / c and spewing germs 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 shade is pulled above our bed, and through The silken hanging drapes the sun affixes Its beam to cast our shadows on the blue, The pale-blue, green-blue walls where color mixes With a vibrant painting painted by your mother, Of pink and white flowers in a vase That seem to be finale of some other Suspended history of time and place. Imagine Wallace Stevens played by Bill Murray and the emperor...

* alternate photo and poem for paid subscribers everyone exit to nowhere or the secret lair of the prognosticator who comes out for the sunrise seeing none retreats into his shadow 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

halfway to halfway / between winter and / summer according to lore // no sunrise is a good sign / no shadow's showing / and river's flowing 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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Jesus in 1920 / was erected on the shore / in front of Saint Joachim / to stand there and herald the / freezing and the melting and / the seabirds celebrating / the hope of Jesus' shadow. 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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Photos by Jonathan Potter ⓒ 2024 1. (7:20am) After days of gray and cold and no sunrise to speak of my beloved suggested I should look out the window. There, I was surprised to see, the sky was a backdrop of mauve, pink, tangerine, and gold. 2. (7:23am) I hopped in the car and drove down Saint Charles Boulevard where the naked trees greeted the rising sun with grateful limbs spread out and their b...

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on the saint lawrence / the ice is forming / the morning gives nothing back // that the night withheld because / the day and the night / have this icy truce 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

If I were a bus driver And you were a skin-diver, Would you take a ride with me To the bottom of the sea? If I were a bus driver, Would you take a ride with me? Hold on, hold on, hold on. Should I wait for you or should I roll on? Will you, won't you, won't you, will you get in? You're looking at me like you think I'm kiddin'. If I were a garbage man Emptying your garbage can, Would you throw your...

i. after completion exhaling the morning gray inhaling the thought of sunrise recalling consummation and the softness of the darkness the solidity of love the bright future laid out ii. extended family the strain of travel to you your welcoming preparations your father and your brother your buoyant cousin visiting we navigate together we begin to build a life This is a public episode. If you'd lik...

alternating snow and rain and freezing and melting infinitely it seems till this infinite now sees its shadow in a spring 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

the bare ruined limbs / of these trees contain / hidden rivers of the sun // where shadows not yet begun / feed the dreams of birds / and their silent songs 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 woke up at four / and stepped out the door / to meet my uber driver // who delivered me over / the river to fly / up to 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

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The fog / Undid / The bag / The lid / Just long / Enough / To fling / The chaff / Aside / To show / The dead / The way / To rise / Through haze 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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if the sun were to rise and shine brightly without fail then its brightness might grow dismal in boredom so instead we get this gray loveliness 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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