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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Nerves of a Poet” (of 4 poems and 4 haiku poems) with music from the HA!Man of South Africa live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou in Chicago 11/21/14, INCLUDING THIS POEM (this video was filmed from a Canon camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Nerves of a Poet” (of 4 poems and 4 haiku poems) with music from the HA!Man of South Africa live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou in Chicago 11/21/14, INCLUDING THIS POEM (this video was filmed from a Sony camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperspoetryshow
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video of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Nerves of a Poet” (S crop, of 4 poems and 4 haiku poems) with music from the HA!Man of South Africa live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou in Chicago 11/21/14, INCLUDING THIS POEM
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video of Janet Kuypers’ poetry feature “Nerves of a Poet” (S crop glow, of 4 poems and 4 haiku poems) with music from the HA!Man of South Africa live at Café Cabaret at Café Ballou in Chicago 11/21/14, INCLUDING THIS POEM
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See a Vine video of Janet Kuypers reading her twitter-length poem “Translation (2014 haiku)” from Scars Publications’ 1/17Down in the Dirt v141 issue “Ice King” as a looping JKPoetryVine video 1/12/17 (filmed in Austin Texas from a Samsung Galaxy S7).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersJune 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17, where she read Down in the Dirt’s book “Study in Black” poems “One and Six” “feel”, “eventually” and “Translation”, then cc&d’s book “Things Found in Books” poems “Oxygen to Flame the Fire”, “Fuming in the Morning” & “Vanishing Scars” for “Community Poetry” @ Austin’s Half Price Books (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersJune 2017 Book Release Reading 6/7/17, where she read Down in the Dirt’s book “Study in Black” poems “One and Six” “feel”, “eventually” and “Translation”, then cc&d’s book “Things Found in Books” poems “Oxygen to Flame the Fire”, “Fuming in the Morning” & “Vanishing Scars” for “Community Poetry” @ Austin’s Half Price Books (video from a Sony camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “December 2017 Book Release Reading” 12/6/17, where she reads from the book “Negative Space” her haiku and short poems “coincidence?”, “translation (2014 haiku)”, “oceans”, “behind”, “out there”, “opposite”, and “addiction”, her micro prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Earth was Crying”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “Just by Holding His Hand”, and “Only an Observer” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers’ “December 2017 Book Release Reading” 12/6/17, where she reads from the book “Negative Space” her haiku and short poems “coincidence?”, “translation (2014 haiku)”, “oceans”, “behind”, “out there”, “opposite”, and “addiction”, her micro prose “Driving By His House”, and her poems “Earth was Crying”, “Your Imaginary Soul Weighs 21 Grams”, “Just by Holding His Hand”, and “Only an Observer” in “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” (Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 12/17/17 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” book reading at the AIPF booth / 2017 Awesmic City Expo, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Nerves of a Poet” poems “Jabbed into an Open Nerve”, “bruised”, “Eight to Sixteen”, “Lord Have Mercy”, “Violent Affair”, “fog”, “pant”, and “translation (2014 haiku)”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet KuypersNovember 2018 Book Release Reading 11/7/18, where she read her “Nerves of a Poet” poems “Jabbed into an Open Nerve”, “bruised”, “Eight to Sixteen”, “Lord Have Mercy”, “Violent Affair”, “fog”, “pant”, and “translation (2014 haiku)”, all from the Janet Kuypers 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey”, during Community Poetry at Half Price Books (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Posterize).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Nerves of a Poet” show poems “fog”, “pant”, and “translation (2014 haiku)”, then her “6 second poems” show poem “eight people outside”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” during the Thom multi-person intro to the “Spoken & Heard” open mic 11/4/18 @ Kick Butt Coffee (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Nerves of a Poet” show poems “fog”, “pant”, and “translation (2014 haiku)”, then her “6 second poems” show poem “eight people outside”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” during the Thom multi-person intro to the “Spoken & Heard” open mic 11/4/18 @ Kick Butt Coffee (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Hue Cycl.).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Nerves of a Poet” show poems “fog”, “pant”, and “translation (2014 haiku)”, then her “6 second poems” show poem “eight people outside”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” during the Thom multi-person intro to the “Spoken & Heard” open mic 11/4/18 @ Kick Butt Coffee (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Polarize).
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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Nerves of a Poet” show poems “fog”, “pant”, and “translation (2014 haiku)”, then her “6 second poems” show poem “eight people outside”, all read from her 2014-2015 Chicago poetry performance art book “a year long Journey” during the Thom multi-person intro to the “Spoken & Heard” open mic 11/4/18 @ Kick Butt Coffee (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera);
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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, console, form, knowing, oil, cage, evil, faith, guide, behind, sort, barbed, difference, predator, blood, easy, existence, judge, fog, upturn, Translation (2014 haiku), sting, enemies, Deity Discipline (stretched haiku), Ants and Crosses, energy, knees, force, you, this is only a test, misogyny, ourselves, key, scorches, only, bear, census, clogged, end, falling, relegated, “Jimbo”, eventually, progress, labor, mister, over, rescue, octopi and brains, octopi and dogs, universe, and love (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera with a Sepia Tone filter); this video was posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, and console (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera); video posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers 11/6/19 reading every poem in her “100 Haikus” section (plus bonus haiku) in her poetry book “Partial Nudity” during her November 2018 Book Release Reading through Community Poetry! at Half Price Books, including much, out, can’t get you, of his thirst, know, pleading, coincidence?, found haiku, close, defenses, destroy, floor, hold, forever, jumped, study, Even with no Wish Bone, addiction, stagger, everyone, last, bruised, organs, choke, ends, explosions, fit, fought, heaviness, extinct, feel, escape, opening, pant, strike, civil, found, need, kill, kindness, run, pet, John’s Mind, humans, mirror, elusive, keep, greatest, instead, Arsenic and Syphilis, life (Periodic Table haiku), life (2000), timing, Two Not Mute Haikus, He’s An Escapist, Ending a Relationship, nightmares, knife, free, years, groove, errors, job, jobless, out there, gone, and console (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; Sepia Tone); posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr.

Translation
(2014 haiku)

Janet Kuypers
haiku 3/15/14
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This was only a
translation for trauma — and
I don’t have the words


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