Floating Island
welcome to volume 206 (the April 2023 issue)
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Table of Contents

AUTHOR TITLE
Tom Sheehan The Prisoner
Bio
Kyle Hemmings Prison 27 photography
Bio
Tom Sheehan Larkspur
Bio
Rita Plush The Blab
Zemni Walking high on moonlight
Bio
Brian J. Pilling Interior Decoration
Reporting The News
Spell-Bound
ayaz daryl nielsen Otiose
Untitled (absence)
Untitled (filled)
Untitled (weeps)
Bio
John Farquhar Young The Bubble
Bio
Kirk Alex Ms. Darling, so Charming. . .
Bio
Bill Tope lecto modo
Mind’s Eye
Richard K. Williams Hunters Sale
Daniel de Culla Dog for Barking (Burgos) photography
Bio
Tom Ball Affairs of the Floating Island
Bio
Scars Publications Hammock to the trees
Paradise (Copyright © May 2000-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Tom Ball A Whirlwind Tour of Space
Bio
Hubble 2016 portrait of Mars
NASA Neptune
Zach Murphy What Do I Wear to My Friend’s Funeral?
Bio
Susie Gharib The Unwritten Letter
The Talisman
The Seamstress
Bio
James Bates Potassium
Bio
Janet Kuypers Potassium and Chef Boyardee
Potassium
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems from the books “Claustrophobia” and “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” “Rubidium Deep Red Explosions” and “Rubidium leads the way to a new state” (+ shared the image for this poem), then her “Floating Island” book poems “Potassium and Chef Boyardee” (which is also in the book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”) and “Potassium” (which is also in the book “Periodic Table Poetry”) for the 4/5/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). video This was also a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem


Potassium Chloride (+ image)
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v206 4/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Floating Island” poems “Oganesson, bending time inside” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Potassium Chloride” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only If She Had a Choice” and “Evil of What They’ve Done” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”) during her “Poetic License 4/2/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). video This was also a Facebook live video stream (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights


Bio
Norm Hudson Go to the Wall
Edward Michael O’Durr Supranowicz Walls of Sadness art
Deborah H. Doolittle As the World Turns the Pages of my Atlas into Dust
Cinderella’s Lost Slipper
The Pregnant Pause
Bio
John Grey Ernie, Ex-Playground Star
On That Night Walk Home
Pileated Woodpecker
Thieves
Bio
John Ragusa The Mysterious Matter of the Unlikely Accident
Janet Kuypers Oganesson, bending time inside image
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v206 4/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Floating Island” poems “Oganesson, bending time inside” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Potassium Chloride” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only If She Had a Choice” and “Evil of What They’ve Done” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”) during her “Poetic License 4/2/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). video This was also a Facebook live video stream (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights


Bio
Brian C. Miller The Moment
Parachute
Washing a Poem
Drew Marshall Science or Heroin?
Helen Bird “innksanity” Geo Metric Systems ink drawing
Kristia Vasiloff 1990 Crawls To Me Singing
Don’t You Ever Let It Be

Bio
Peggy Gerber Mom’s Top-Secret Stash
Karen Lee Stradford Downtown Traffic
Kevin Hopson Crossing the Line
Bio
Christopher Strople Hill Road photography
Todd Mercer Withdrawal
Bio
Richard K. Williams Boston
Scars Publications Boston Cheers sign and Boston building
(Copyright © 1990-2023 Janet Kuypers)
Richard K. Williams First Birthday
Hoboken Saturday
Messages
Changming Yuan Hanyang County: the Death of a Widow
Bio
Bill Tope Joey
Elena Botts Untitled 15 art
Bio
Janet Kuypers Only If She Had a Choice
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v206 4/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Floating Island” poems “Oganesson, bending time inside” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Potassium Chloride” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only If She Had a Choice” and “Evil of What They’ve Done” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”) during her “Poetic License 4/2/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). video This was also a Facebook live video stream (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights


Equality Doesn’t Mean Removing Rights
Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Equality Doesn’t Mean Removing Rights” and “Journalisming the Story of Equal Rights” from the books “Floating Island” and “Testament” for the 4/5/23 ‘Community Poetry’ honorary book reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). video This video is also a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights


Evil of What They’ve Done
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v206 4/23 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Floating Island” poems “Oganesson, bending time inside” (which is also in her book “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry”), “Potassium Chloride” (which is also in her book “Periodic Table Poetry”), “Only If She Had a Choice” and “Evil of What They’ve Done” (which is also in the 2023 CyberWit.net book “Testament”) during her “Poetic License 4/2/23 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). video This was also a Facebook live video stream (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuypers #janetkuypersperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperswomensrights


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