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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem “Vanadium” (element V, #23) from her poetry book “The Periodic Table of Poetry”, then her 2019 poems “Village is Complete with a Community” and “Only Remember Fragments”, live 3/23/19 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her Periodic Table poem “Vanadium” (element V, #23) from her poetry book “The Periodic Table of Poetry”, then her 2019 poems “Village is Complete with a Community” and “Only Remember Fragments”, live 3/23/19 at Georgetown’s “Poetry Aloud” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Visiting and Seeing the Signs”, “Only Remember Fragments (dreams 3/21/19)”, and “Just Let Me Have My Space” from the Down in the Dirt 2/21 v180 book “Eclipsed” at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 2/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Visiting and Seeing the Signs”, “Only Remember Fragments (dreams 3/21/19)”, and “Just Let Me Have My Space” from the Down in the Dirt 2/21 v180 book “Eclipsed” at the beginning of the “Poetic License virtual open mic 2/7/21” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoeticlicense
video See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just Let Me Have My Space”, “Jet Stream of Water: dreams 3/9/19”, “Only Remember Fragments (dreams 3/21/19)”, “Just the Right Words”, “Visiting and Seeing the Signs”, “Xylograph: My Story Must be Free”, and “United We Wonder” from the “Eclipsed” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years”, read 5/5/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram
video See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Just Let Me Have My Space”, “Jet Stream of Water: dreams 3/9/19”, “Only Remember Fragments (dreams 3/21/19)”, “Just the Right Words”, “Visiting and Seeing the Signs”, “Xylograph: My Story Must be Free”, and “United We Wonder” from the “Eclipsed” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years”, read 5/5/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

Only Remember
          Fragments

Janet Kuypers
3/22/19 (dreams 3/21/19)

I’m sorry
I only remember
bits and pieces

but he was still alive
and he was showing to me
this one painting from her

it was a self-portrait

I barely remember seeing
any of her paintings
when we was alive

she hid them away

I don’t know what happened
to any of her paintings
after she died

but here he was, still alive,
showing me her self-portrait

I couldn’t help but stare
it wasn’t like
the other paintings
I barely remember
seeing from her

this painting was very “mod”
her hair was very ’60s
and the only things
I remember seeing
were strong lines in deep blue

I can’t even remember
if the painting was finished,
because I was too mesmerized
with the bold blue brush strokes
outlining her hair
and outlining her form

I don’t remember
her looking that way
but then again,
I wasn’t alive in the ’60s

and as I said,
I only remember fragments

but all I can remember
was being mesmerized
by this painting
and thinking
that it was beautiful


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