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Enjoy this YouTube video from 4/29/23 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vintages, Tapestries, and Memories” for its appearance in and from the “2023 Animal Tales” book anthology during the Tablerock Poetry Festival in 2023 at Tablerock of Salado, TX (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). This YouTube video was also filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr. #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersveglife

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v339 11/23 cc&d issue/book “Pieces of the Past” poems “Domestic Violence in America, Nashville, Tennessee (stick)” (+ show images 1, 2 & 3) & “Journal 20150116 8:07AM IST” (w/ these two pieces in her CyberWit book “Shattering the Glass Ceiling”, + her journal also in the book “Bon Voyage!” on travel to India), & her Animal Tales 2023 poem “Vintages, Tapestries, and Memories” (+ show images 1 & 2) to start her “Poetic License 11/5/23 global open mic” she hosted in a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (video filmed & streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera with THE REAL GLITCH filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersshatteringtheglassceiling #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperswomensrights #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Vintages, Tapestries, and Memories Janet Kuypers 2/19/23 (completed 2/24/23) You never live in the world as it is. Everything you’ve ever seen — it arrived to you at the speed of light. Feel the heat of the sun as it existed eight and a third minutes ago... or, remember throwing the ball to your cat? That happened longer ago than you think, for you even see those pets from nano-seconds ago; you only experience things as they were, in a tapestry of past vintages. This must be why I can’t believe that my cats, my loved ones, once filled with such life, are now gone — when I vividly remember her laying along my leg, purring, gently moving her back paw repeatedly over my hand, then resting her leg on my wrist. I am positive I can still feel him jumping onto my bed, resting his paws on my shoulder, laying down and purring a peaceful symphony to my ear. You’re right, I never live in the world as it is when all I memorialize is... my cats licking forks clean when we’d feed them, or how we’d play hide and seek with laser pen lights, hearing their little paws thumping and scurrying... Or even when she would move her eyes to inches from mine for her treats, right up ‘til the end, when death was at her door. I never saw him go blind, or her body shut down. Maybe they may have lived if we didn’t have to wait for the interminably slow speed of light... or if only we didn’t wait to experience these past vintages of our loved ones instead.

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