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Jonathan Potter

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0:44

The Glory of the Sun Decreases

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2024/07/03

The glory of the sun decreases after the slow explosion of color as of a Van Gogh or a Gauguin — being poor was how they let the coral from tubes of paint squeeze out to the end and fill the whole world, posthumously, with unanticipated splendor. Just like that, I empty my pockets and remove my shoes to pass through the gates of the dawn, empty and strangely alive at the tail end of the dying world. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus

0:20

The Sadness of Leafless Limbs

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2024/07/02

the sadness of leafless limbs their sad hallelujahs to the sun seeming to fail to rise hiding beneath birdsong leaves the sun paving a path of gold and answering hallelujah 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

1:41

Pre-Sunrise Sestina

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2024/07/01

The stirring in my heart I felt this morning stirred me to wakefullness in the dim light of the pre-sunrise dawn. I rolled over on my back and touched my neck to check my pulse, wondering about my family history felt in the mirror and the back of my mind, pointing me to an image of the dark dawn, a liaison with death’s dim grim grin looking back at my dim reflection blinding my dilated pupils’ pre-dawn shuffling walk I felt was needed in order to pee before going back to bed to touch the lovely back

0:21

Salamander Sun Sliding

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2024/06/30

Salamander sun sliding through the clouds, a revolution accompanied by birdsong, dandelions and rabbits suddenly (dis)appearing, blessed chaos in the backyard. 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

0:21

The Scene Is Set to Create

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2024/06/29

The scene is set to create a universe from the mustard seed of a dream I can't recall. I opened my hand at dawn and there it was, almost invisible. And then I blessed it and let it fly. 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

12:07

My Last Ten Poems as a Single Poem

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2024/06/27

How to Move to Canada 1. The family of all things, as Mary Oliver put it, is where we struggle to find our place. When I think of my father's love and the legacy of love he left, I see myself standing there. Then I think of my mother and her grief in the wake of him disappearing across the distant horizon where the river empties itself into the ocean and the sun sets for us all. But then I think of this dawn, this sunrise on the river where I stand among the wild geese and ducks who seem to

1:12

Decrease Combined with Sincerity

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2024/06/24

"Decrease combined with sincerity" is what this morning's I Ching reading suggests I meditate upon. Canada the mountain above, America the lake below, Myself the evaporation of liquid water into drifting clouds heavy with the bounty of the rain to be transubstantiated into the gifts of grapes and wine and, flowing with the river, love pouring into the simplicity of the vast and mysterious sea. Not hesitating to help when help is needed — but with sensitive awareness — is an element of this release

1:08

How to Move to Canada

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2024/06/23

How to Move to Canada is the title of a book snagged from a Free Little Library and packed up with the thousand things jammed into my ailing Highlander and squeezed through the needle's eye of Sault Ste. Marie, mon amour in the passanger seat and navigating along the northern shore of Lake Huron through Sturgeon Falls, with a stop for lunch and to see her lovely tante et oncle. I am neither a rich man nor a camel, but I do have a heart full of love and many bright ideas floating in my head, not to

1:01

The Border Guards Raised Their Eyebrows

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2024/06/22

The border guards raised their eyebrows at the amount of stuff we were hauling into Canada from the land of the insane to the south. So we had to get out and make an accounting. A friendly interrogation ensued, since the mutual love between our two lands persists despite ongoing questions about obliviousness and drunken driving of the ship of state. My love and I answered their questions satisfactorily and continued on our way persisting in our own love mutually arrived at years ago and now reaching

1:01

The Sleepy Hollow Motel

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2024/06/21

The Sleepy Hollow Motel, between the thumb and forefinger of westernmost Gitche Gumee, is where my love and I lie in the innocence of love and the guilt of humankind. We’ve dined on peanut butter and bread and the last few ounces of the Monkey’s Shoulder we brought with us from Washington State (a gift from a Spokane friend, now transformed to emptiness). And now, after making love, we sink into the innocence of sleep, with thoughts of Bob Dylan’s childhood home in the hills of old Duluth,

1:09

From Devils Tower in Wyoming

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2024/06/18

From Devils Tower in Wyoming to the Black Hills of South Dakota, arriving on the set of the old west Deadwood and tracing the footsteps of Wild Bill and Seth Bullock to await the dawn over the presidential district, we walk the gulch and gawk at fellow gawkers hearkening back to the 1800s and keenly felt in the inner truth of the present madness afflicting these United States and all of us teetering on the edges of our own souls' devil's towers' pinacles where flowers grow unseen and from where we

1:07

Sunrise off the Interstate

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2024/06/17

Sunrise off the interstate syncopates our Montana sojourn waking up in Billings to the music of regrets merging into a melody of love’s momentous consolation in the family of things, in shared memories and plans, in the motel breakfast buffet, in the foibles of friendship and the knowing what not to say when politics and friendship collide. At the Wyoming state line meadowlarks begin to sing in earnest with cricket chorus, and the smell of wild flowers — despite horrific history — triggers a

1:07

Sunrise Separates the Night

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2024/06/16

Sunrise separates the night from the day. And on this day I'm driving away from the gray with lightning and hail at my back and the music of the mysterious mountains before me, the imprint of the constantly changing dance of light and dark and meaning and chaos playing out like a piano scroll made of dark pavement and painted lines and rumble strips keeping me in line. I repent of my too harsh judgments of friends and loved ones in this election year even as I turn my back on them to drive away. I

1:17

The Family of All Things

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2024/06/13

The family of all things, as Mary Oliver put it, is where we struggle to find our place. When I think of my father's love and the legacy of love he left, I see myself standing there. Then I think of my mother and her grief in the wake of him disappearing across the distant horizon where the river empties itself into the ocean and the sun sets for us all. But then I think of this dawn, this sunrise on the river where I stand among the wild geese and ducks who seem to acknowledge my place in a new way

1:13

Early Morning Traffic

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2024/06/11

Early morning trafficunder the brutal comfort of the unangry orange and gold sunrise, vermillion and scarlet, pale pink and cobalt mauve moving into a deep and infinite blue. Something heavy being pulled along the unforgiving solidity of the highway, the driver listening to right wing radio conspiracy theories and taking gulps of coffee. A sedan with headlights befitting five a.m. gliding in the opposite direction heading to the hospital to see her dying father, listening to the music of

1:04

Inwardly Free of Sorrow

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2024/06/09

Inwardly free of sorrow, the sun radiates its fullness to the sheltering morning as the verdicts of wisdom shine forth and the dull-wittedness of the deceptive is revealed in the sudden early light of summer speeding into spring, and the location of dawn on the eastern horizon inches to its maximum point in the land of the midnight sun. I wake from a solid sleep with the aching bones of old age hinting at my youthful mind that I, too, am approaching that point where the fullness of life turns back

1:05

The Abysmal Morning

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2024/06/07

The abysmal morning carries me on a current of dismay at abyss upon abyss, and yet the river of friendship continues to flow toward the Sea — I must believe it does and that these many changing lines must point to a place downstream past these eddies of confusion and propaganda to where the river turns again to flow toward the places I love, west past Umatilla, The Dalles, Hood River, Multnomah Falls, the criss-cross bridges of Portland, Astoria, the Sea — to join with the sunset and ride the

1:57

Children

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2024/06/06

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0:18

The Bent Branches of Dawn

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2024/06/02

The bent branches of dawn sway to the music of the sun, finding the right moment in the moment of sunrise to face the day's trials and awaken with joy. 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

5:33

A, B, Q, R, S, T, U, V

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2024/06/01

As promised, I circled back around to fill in my gaps in Writer Pilgrim by So Elite’s month-of-May song-title poetry challenge — and got my entries in just before the clock struck midnight on May 31, 2024. So I’m reposting the letters I’d missed along the way: A, B, Q, R, S, T, U, and V. I followed the rules and limited myself strictly to song titles (with some poetic license applied to capitalization and punctuation) and I made them all into fourteen-liners, which you might therefore call

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