feverish sky / on the icy river / at the cusp of christmastide // and the beginning of the / return journey of / the warmhearted 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

haiku 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

the sun burning a / hole in god's pocket / at the far southern tip of // the cape of good hope of a / distant universe / not this tiny 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

lemon-zest sunrise / in the cocktail of / the day with its icy glaze // of winter served up gently / stirred to wake you up / to the dreaming world 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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My father’s guns, left to me— Several from the bedroom closet And one from under the bed: Shotgun with a flashlight taped To the barrel to daze the eyes Of a midnight intruder. The light my father wielded He left to me in my midnight. I unloaded the rifle And held it in the sunrise. The dark barrel’s golden gleaming Shed sparks of filial love. . 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

9x9 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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a conclave of trees / in the early fog / of what would be the sunrise // the trees hold their faith and turn / their backs to the street / and i stand with them. 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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sunrise lasts all day / in the northern climes / this time of year as solstice // approaches like a cup of / coffee you forgot / you already drank 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 answer my friend, is blowing in the wind ... 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 i not tell / you how i miss you / when i miss you like the sky // misses the river from the / sunrise to the sea / from the bridge to 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

columbia park / stretched out in the rain / like a patient etherized / upon a table feeling / no pain as the pink / and blue fade to black 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

Villanelle Variant 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 in the fog / like a dickens scene / on the highway through the bog // bleak and lovely and serene / black and brown and green / hides a sleeping krog 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

yakima river / the fog a creature / celebrating the sunrise // and flowing into the great / columbia and / then the pacific 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'm not complaining / but the sunrise scene / i'm looking for can't be seen // this morning just the tangle / of car tires and train / wheels fading to gray 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 begins to / last till sunset this / time of year and the days flash // over the lake like wild geese / honking frantically / in the meager 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

grizzled the morning / takes on airs of gray / and i become a gray man // standing on the gray doorstep / of a gray heaven / looking for 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

the breath of the sun / rests on the river / before the sunrise sets in / the burnished bronze horizon / with gold-fringed blue sky / declares what's coming 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

with apologies to Wallace Stevens 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

chink in the armor of the autumn sky allows us to see the burning furnace fire of the sunrise pink and tangerine as the rain begins 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

pink river morning with yellows and blues and november waterfowl floating across the glassy surface of the day getting underway 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

A poem based on a dream from 1988 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 Northern Pacific Kennewick-Pasco Bridge 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

at heartache o'clock* / i find myself here / where i grew up but different // now different but the same / the same old sunrise / but very different 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

serendipity finds me constantly the sun is always rising somewhere and setting somewhere else and wherever i am there i am 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 delivery 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

radio towers / at the confluence / of the columbia and // the snake transmit messages / of am-fm / disconsolation 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

high beams in the rain / the driver intent / on getting somewhere as soon // as possible i stop time / climb in next to him / and write this poem 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

the bridge is burning / into memory / as if its solidity // has crossed the blank gray chasm / between mind and soul / to convey 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

ditty as 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

a cautionary tale 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

A woman named Ursula went / To an eighty-third birthday event / And danced on the table / In a dress made of sable / Till all her beer money was spent 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

river graffiti reflected in fog luminous gloominess soothing my moodiness waterfowl follow the sunken 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

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

10 x 10 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

a sort of 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