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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vacant Spaces (dreams 4/10/20)” and her Periodic Table Twitter Verse poem “Boron nitride stretching” live 8/27/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vacant Spaces (dreams 4/10/20)” and her Periodic Table Twitter Verse poem “Boron nitride stretching” live 8/27/20 during the Virtual Austin Poetry Society New World Poetry open mic (from a Samsung S9 camera).

Vacant Spaces (dreams 4/10/20) Janet Kuypers 4/10/20, on Good Friday (two days before Easter) I was at my sister’s house, like we usually did for holidays but it wasn’t my sister’s house everything, per usual, seemed disjointed and out of place this was where I was supposed to be and though I knew everyone, no one looked familiar I remember hearing a young woman talking in the background it could have been my nephew’s wife but I really can’t remember and I think she said something about wanting a certain gemstone and I was trying to understand if she wanted my birthstone or one with the name of a famous Egyptian library, which, in my twisted mind meant another gemstone altogether for as I said, I only heard snippets, fractured pieces of conversation so I went to another room, refilled the wine in my emptying glass and I heard someone call to me telling me to come over there so I said I would be there in a minute until I walked to the dining room to see everyone seated and eating all of my family, even my husband was seated, nestled between people and they were all laughing and talking and connecting together so I looked around the table and saw two tiny empty spaces at the corner of the table with no chairs, no place settings and I realized that this was where me, and maybe another sister were supposed to be but with no chair, plates, silverware and no one noticing I was forgotten I backed away                and thought I don’t need to eat anyway if this is the amount of thought they put into me

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