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

Hammock stretched between / two palm trees near the ocean. / That's the haiku form. 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 / across the river / have been there as long as i // can remember but they seem / newly fashioned in / the strange light of 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

a dream recounted in 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

A continuation of the Spokane Stanzas, which begin in the book Tulips for Elsie. 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 geese flew across / just as i pointed / my camera at the sunrise // no time to think about it / only the instant / seized in the instant 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

the modeh ani / on my mind i rise / from an anxious sleep to greet // the flowers the grass the leaves / the sanctuary / of love surrounding 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

black-eyed susan sunrise / on a chain-link fence / the sun overwhelming // a tree of heaven along / the highway looking / north towards heaven 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

Pushkin 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

Spokane 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

we are in the depths / of some summer now / so deep we don’t even know // what year it is we just drive / into the furnace / of the dawning 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

haiku villanelle 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

fir limb drapery / sets the sunrise scene / the maestro of the morning // arises from bed to see / behold friends the sun / i give it to you 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

cormorants flying / at calm speed over / the surface of the river // the mirror of time holding / them in the squinting / light of 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

a sestina 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 bones of my mind / and the boneyard of / my aspirations spread out // across the plains of my heart / are one and the same / under 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

It’s nighttime and Nat and I are taking the dog for a nighttime walk. 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 weight of the sky / resists the sunrise / but the trees and the mountains // welcome it with a breathing / song of acceptance / in the orange 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

i woke this morning / after a good sleep / and drove down to the river // to see what kind of sunrise / the river and sky / might offer my eyes 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 water above / and the sky below / tell me the upside down world // lays itself out before me / a bird flies through me / i bring the sky home 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 chased the sunrise / across the ocean / and fell asleep before it // turned into someone's sunset / but woke in a strange / new day and caught it 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

For some reason I have a new flying skateboard— call it a skyboard ... 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

rainy vacation / comes to a rainy / end say goodbye to scotland // now a short hop through the clouds/ to london and then / race the sunrise home 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 air of Ayr is fresh and spare … 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

Armitage Shanks / Was a man of some means ... 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 double sestina in progress 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 sitting at the kitchen table, the one my father built ... 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 lamb was tangled in the soccer goal netting ... 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 wife is standing / awake and bemused / at the living room window // as i consider the sun / glowing in her hair / and the day ahead 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

where the figgate burn / pours into the firth / the sunrise in the distance // burns a hole in the morning / casts a spell on me / as i wake to sleep 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 at a conference with my librarian wife ... 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 on the firth / at the end of earth / in the early sunlit north // solstice on the river forth / these words in my mouth / sunrise moving south 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 pals with a rap star (someone like Ice Cube but not Ice Cube) ... 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

houses made of stone / and sinew and bone / give over to the morning // let go of bitter scorning / give thanks in your bed / rest your heavy headPotter 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 jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

I’m laid out on an exam table in a doctor’s office ... 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