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1:01

Magic, Physics, and Rules

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2026/04/25

When Carlos Cortes hit a scorcher ... 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

1:10

Myself Included

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2026/04/24

The purple martins returnedTo their spot on the melted river. The phenology calendar We keep by the door said they would. The redwinged blackbirds, too, Were there, and a lone cormorant. I was also there for sun And for the hope wafting in the air. A stoic seagull sailed over And circled the scene on patrol Before veering away Upstream towards the marina. Everything leaned toward spring And its offer of new beginning. Every bird and beast in that scene, Myself included (with my cares), Seemed

0:29

Easy

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2026/04/16

How easy life can 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

1:15

Letter to Fred

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2026/04/11

Let me tell you, dear Fred,About how fatefulness led From exhaustion to love Like a bee gliding into a glove Or a foot with ruby sock Kicking open a sugared lock. But I wonder, old pal, How it’s going, and your gal, How she’s doing as well, And how the old magic from the spell Is winding down to its end Back to where all things must descend. There’s no such thing as luck, I’ll tell you that, and some pluck Will go a long way towards Breaking through the closed windows and the boards That

1:22

Melting Waltz

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2026/04/10

The caverns of my heart Flow with the water music Of a waltz frozen in the past. I was the band leader When all the dance steps came to grief, Even the rising sun. But the dawn comes again And the ice of the river Begins to relax and give way To a new song and day. Second chances and new dances Appear in the melting. The main thing is to feel The changing waves chip away At the ice as it melts and breaks, And then to step into The flow with your thoughts fully formed And your resolve

0:20

The Sun Refuses

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2026/04/06

the sun refuses to let the gray sky have the final say instead emitting a low whisper of hope and distant birdsong 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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March Seventeenth Sunrise

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2026/03/18

The painter Tintoretto had an eyeFor how the light of Venice danced across Not only the canals but every surface, The plenitude of interlacing moods Of bodies occupying space. His brush Contained the Cristo risorgente’s glow Like sunrise on the Adriatic Sea. And now I rise and walk down to a scree Of broken pavement where I stub my toe While waiting for the sunrise and the rush And swoop of birds. A Little Egret broods Nearby and I surrender to the harness Of the day, my load of gathered

0:59

March Sixteenth Sunrise

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2026/03/16

Sunrise from the Fondamenta Nove The Fondamenta Nove gazes east Across the great lagoon and past the graves Of Brodsky, Pound, Stravinsky, and the beast Of Venice, namely Potter with his waves Of ink that flash and glint like squid Whose brains like those of poets are nocturnal But still embrace the lifting of the lid Of day, the new foundation of eternal Imagination carried from the night Like catches hauled in nets of straining lines Laid out in sepia tones transformed to light Illuminating

1:03

March Fifteenth Meandering

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2026/03/15

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 jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

0:48

March Twelfth Freeze

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2026/03/12

false spring gives way 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

0:39

March Tenth Sunrise

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2026/03/10

waking in the dark from uneasy dreamsI feel a kafkaesque anxiety come over me as if I know not seems, (but I know I do, in perplexity in a temple built of uncertainty) the tradewinds of uncanny servitude bring sunrise as a broken interlude like this poem propping up the ceiling and this strange and lovely beatitude of dawn undoing my fear-fraught feeling This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit

0:35

March Eighth Break of Day

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2026/03/08

the clocks askew, the morning faint 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

0:43

March Fifth Sunrise

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2026/03/06

how the morning hit the 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

0:41

March Fourth Sunrise

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2026/03/04

when I looked through my window glass 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

0:51

March Third Sunrise

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2026/03/03

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0:34

March Second Sunrise

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2026/03/02

in the morning there is painat the frozen river's edge on the ledge of spring's return in the morning there is pain where the lamb by lion slain sunrise bleeding on the verge in the morning there is pain at the frozen river's edge .subscription optionspourboire 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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March First Sunrise

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2026/03/01

today is the daythe melting begins the snow on the ice begins to thin and the ice itself begins to turn back into a river 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 jopomojo.substack.com/subscribe

1:15

Frozen Sunrise

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2026/02/06

I had to warm up my caras the sun rose and the sky began to saturate. Being cold and having slept poorly, my mood was icy and angry and ready for movement. As I aimed my crusted car onto the gray and white street— the white snow and gray ice— the dilemma of my destiny weighed on me, and the affections of my life warmed the car. The carefree days of summer seemed like an improbable fictional fantasy. But when I began to see the sun like my child's head peeking out from memory, I felt

11:28

Live with Jonathan Potter

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2025/12/25

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Live with Jonathan Potter

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2025/12/19

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