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video Enjoy this YouTube video of the 3/28/15 Janet Kuypers show “Journey” (w/ John playing guitar) at “Sisters on a Journey” in Chicago’s Hyde Park of 14 poems about her mother, including this poem (filmed from a Canon Power Shot camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, & Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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“Journey”, w/ poems read 3/28/15
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her prose “Clay” and her poems “The Good “Doctor””, and “Seven Ten, Seven Twenty” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
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See YouTube video of Chicago poet Janet Kuypers reading her prose “Clay” and her poems “The Good “Doctor””, and “Seven Ten, Seven Twenty” from her book “Chapter 38 (v2)” 5/19/18 at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

Seven Ten, Seven Twenty

08/31/06

received a phone call today
“this is Hazel in Naples
your dad can’t talk right now”

it was probably around seven twenty
Central Standard Time
and she told me
my mother died
about ten minutes ago

dad got on the phone
said I’m the only child he called

my husband watches me
as I listen to the news

my mother has died
and my father is falling apart
a thousand miles away

I
I tell him I’m sorry
I don’t know what else to say

I rested my hands
on the arm rests of my desk chair
everything suddenly felt very heavy

I didn’t want to lift my hands,
my fingers

it’s almost as if
after I heard
I’m too numb to cry

I’ve been crying enough before she left

and the tears will come later

trust me


Copyright © 2006 Janet Kuypers.



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