PODCAST · arts
jopomojo
by Jonathan Potter
Jonathan Potter poetry and stuff jopomojo.substack.com
Episodes
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Philosophica
poetry from my lungs 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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The Question
An oracular-syllabic hexastich by Jonathan Potter 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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Exoterica
If I were to count 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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Stars Behind Eyelids
The majestic madness of the sky ... 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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The Message of the Mountain
to be still under the sky 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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Old Friends
The tattooed heavy equipment / operator ... 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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Unsolicited Advice
If you try to lead 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
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The Ball
From the roof of my building .... 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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What It Was
Last night I saw a UFO 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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The Tug
for Natalie on our anniversary Our strength could be our undoing if we’re not careful, my love. The doves outside are cooing, and we know how to take off the glove of strong thought and let ourselves feel it — the tug — and then reel it. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this…
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Strum
A warm wind comes 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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Warbler
There are no more changing lines ... 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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Easy Life
I have had an easy life ... 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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Infinity of Dandelions
... this infinity of the dandelions of my mind ... 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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Ghost Rain
... feathered hopes ... 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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Seeing the Forest for the Fire
There is an old saying 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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Raft revision
a revised birthday 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
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Raft
for Dylan on her birthday 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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Cutting Open
... the knot of night. 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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Retreat
... Newfoundland trigger-hand / mittens ... 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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Together
for Morgan on her birthday 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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Where
where my life has led me now 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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Acres Road
Walking down Acres Road this morning ... 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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The Fragrance of Orchids
... you and I frequently 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
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Lift Off
In Montreal, the wind below ... 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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Love Story
Coasting into a brick wall ... 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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Double Dragon
Split between the past and future ... 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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The Thing with Feathers
Notes: 1. The title alludes to Emily Dickinson’s poem “Hope” is the thing with feathers, in which hope is figured as an indestructible bird that “perches in the soul — / And sings the tune without the words — / And never stops — at all.” In the present sonnet, the bird with feathers meets a...
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The Road Ahead
The crows of worry … 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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Enter the Dragon
It seems ... 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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Fuel for the Dance
The sky is the wood, dawn the flame, my mind the pot coming to a head— for my porridge and coffee and cream— boiling upward with thunder and dreams to enliven the dance of this happy shift of circumstance. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get…
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The Bee & the Rose
The bee returns to the rose. But not the same bee, and not the same rose, just as you and I are not the same now as when we began, these many years past. And yet love continues to last. Potter Poems is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a...
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A Fool
"... the humble love of learning ..." 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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Choreography of Grace
for Jean on her birthday 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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I to You
As the days after beltane ... 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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Learning to Swim
My past catastrophes ... 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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Nos Amours
Notes: 1. Nos Amours (“Our Loves”) was the popular nickname for the Montreal Expos, MLB’s first franchise outside the United States, founded in 1969 and named after Expo 67, Montreal’s World’s Fair. The team relocated to Washington, D.C., after the 2004 season and became the Nationals. 2. In…
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These Flowing Fountains
I’ve thought about piloting 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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Growing Pains
I’ve been seeing the future ... 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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Magic, Physics, and Rules
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
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Myself Included
The purple martins returned To 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…
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Easy
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
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Letter to Fred
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...
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Melting Waltz
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...
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The Sun Refuses
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
The painter Tintoretto had an eye For 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…
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March Sixteenth Sunrise
Sunrise from the Fondamente Nove The Fondamente 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...
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March Fifteenth Meandering
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
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March Twelfth Freeze
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
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March Eleventh Freezing Rain
curtal sonnet after Hopkins 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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