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video See this YouTube video 4/25/21 of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Knowing that Instant” for the 2021 Poetry Bomb at the Alamo (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetrybomb
video See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Knowing that Instant” for the 2021 Poetry Bomb 4/25/21 at the Alamo (this video was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoem #janetkuyperspoetrybomb
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Chicago “The Café Gallery” poetry open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Society, Glossed Over” and “Knowing that Instant” from the Down in the Dirt magazine August 2021 v186 issue/paperback book “Three Things” 8/4/21 in front of the Gallery Cabaret in Chicago for The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Chicago “The Café Gallery” poetry open mic host Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Our Society, Glossed Over” and “Knowing that Instant” from the Down in the Dirt magazine August 2021 v186 issue/paperback book “Three Things” 8/4/21 in front of the Gallery Cabaret in Chicago for “The Café Gallery 8/4/21 Book Reading” in The Café Gallery Book Reading series 2020+ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gallium”, “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, “Our Society, Glossed Over”, “Knowing that Instant”, “Do the Dead Still Live”, and “Exactly Where She Belonged (dreams2/29/20)” from the v186 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Three Things” 9/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Gallium”, “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, “Our Society, Glossed Over”, “Knowing that Instant”, “Do the Dead Still Live”, and “Exactly Where She Belonged (dreams2/29/20)” from the v186 8/21 Down in the Dirt book “Three Things” 9/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, “Our Society, Glossed Over”, “One Lonesome Whale”, “Española Lore”, “Until I Choose Life”, and “Knowing that Instant” from the Down in the Dirt magazine 5-8/21 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Viruses: Entirely Human After All”, “Our Society, Glossed Over”, “One Lonesome Whale”, “Española Lore”, “Until I Choose Life”, and “Knowing that Instant” from the Down in the Dirt magazine 5-8/21 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 12/1/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a bubble filter). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

Knowing that Instant

Janet Kuypers
2/15/20

what does it feel like
the instant before you die
when that bullet penetrates your skull

what do you feel

everyone postulates about death
about that line we all balance on

but no one thinks of that instant
that instant we can’t reflect
that instant we can’t share with the world
because we’re about to cross
into what no one knows

this is what consumes me
that moment

what does it feel like


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