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Reading Poems on Friday 24.1.25

A recording from Josh Datko's live video

Ok, second time going live, now from the desktop. Twenty minutes before I went live I discovered substack wants this vertical format, so I scrambled to set this up and apologizes if I was a bit flustered with the last minute change.

Its a bit odd because I have to use the phone to see and interact with the chat. Also, on the phone it seemed cut off but on the recording it seems ok.

I’m finding my footing here with this substack live.

But, we did read some great poems. We read:

James Hart, a poem made with calligraphy!

The Right Kind of Eyes
Portrait
Aperture set wide open blurring the field of Central Park framing the portrait of her smileThanks for reading The Right Kind of Eyes! Subscribe, like and comment…
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I felt like

would appreciate this kind of photography poem that Daniel wrote.

Amadeusz’s Library
Devil's Stone
Note: I decided to write a poem about a legend from my town which I have heard since I was a kid, I think you will like it here is its summary about the legend…
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Burn poems burn
Cards
Black and white petals - ink on paper - are sensitive and smudge when handled by rough hands. In greeting cards, no wind blows the pollen onto flower pistils, no bees pass by. The plants in the cards are just old paint that makes a few nice words look prettier — nicely decorated sentences with kitschy pictures gather dust in drawers that ar…
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Flowers of Emptiness
Tracing an Absence
“The words emptiness and reality point to different things. But a complete emptiness is a complete reality, so they’re also the same. In the Heart Sutra, it’s famously said: form is emptiness and emptiness is form. How is that? Observe the images that come into your mind—an awareness of light reflecting and a feeling of void throughout the room, the lan…
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Bev’s Substack
Devil's Island
sharks patrolled the waters beyond as I toured the luscious, green lawn all around the island I went where all the prisoners were sent do not feed the monkeys they warned -instructions one visitor scorned small mark on his hand where bitten he tried to hide with a mitten ten times the size now was his limb monkey bite fever soon set in so many year…
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I also mentioned Laura’s story which really caught my eye this week, thanks so much for joining us live Laura!

Pathological Rumination
Netter’s Anatomy Flash Cards
I’m flicking through the anatomy flashcards I bought for $15 from a used book store in Fitzroy while listening to fellow commuters as they perform their respective, externally branching conversations. “She dressed up as the Wilco album cover… wasn’t it 1992…
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And Misty Violet also hopped in and had also a very nice poem this week as well:

The Violet Grove
Totaled
Winters, when the granite giants sleep, you go — to wander the shadow of whitened skies — to freeze beneath frigid falls— to glide over lonely roads — the Dawn Wall pierced the barrel bellied fog — its entrails palely spilling watery over the paved snake winding through the frozen valley’s heart — leather and steel and the ru…
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