poem You Moved from Island to Island, a poem about remember loved ones like spirit moving around you By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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Watch the YouTube video
of Kuypers reading this poem from her book Stabity Stabity Stab Stab Stab at the open mike 4/11/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa)

Watch the YouTube video

of Kuypers’ open mike 4/11/12 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery in Chicago, plus the entire open mike, w/ this poem (w/ music from the HA!man of South Africa, & piano from Gary)

See YouTube video 5/13/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Planting Palm Tree Seeds”, “You Moved from Island to Island” and “erasure poem: the Meaning of Art” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Lumix).

See YouTube video 5/13/17 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Planting Palm Tree Seeds”, “You Moved from Island to Island” and “erasure poem: the Meaning of Art” at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (Sony).

You Moved from
Island to Island
Janet Kuypers
3/17/12
after the loss,
life goes on
as more time pases,
the more you forget
but after one talks
about the spirit world
I remember you,
in the kitchen
moving from island
to cabinet, to sink
you’re a fixture with us,
but then I realize
that as more time passes
the more we forget
and at the beginning
we wanted to forget
you moving from island
to sink, to island
it hurt too much
to remember
but as time wears on,
life goes on
and as more time passes
the more we forget
that you are always
there with us
as we move
from island to island

my hand to an anim of jkchair