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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v221 7/74 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Mind Pebbles” book poems “Oeuf: The Perfect Wrap”, “Outstretched Hands, Off to the Races”, & “Quito, and our Fleeting Farewell” (which also appear in the CyberWit.net Summer 2024 Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands”) during her “Poetic License 7/7/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a Color Film filter (on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Oeuf: The Perfect Wrap Janet Kuypers 1/23/24 Driving past state lines, passporting country borders, I met you in Ontario. You drove me hours away, closer to Montreal, but out in the middle of nowhere to a cabin your family owned yet sparsely used. But before, we saw Niagara Falls; it’s the U.S.’ oldest state park (though I enjoyed the Canadian side) with its highest flow rate of any North American waterfall and its 160-foot vertical drop that attracts so many... I don’t even know what water surrounded your cabin, if it was a pond, a lake, or a river I cannot even recall, but outside this wooded cabin, we ventured to the water, me with my thirty-five mm camera in hand. While walking on the water, I slipped on a wet rock, and down I went, like broken branches, cascading down. My only instinct was: save the camera — so, up shot my arm as the rest of me twisted below. The injury wasn’t that bad, but I was seeking relief when I felt I had a sprained ankle. Every time moving I’d bemoan and moan ‘oeuf’... until you said, “You know, ‘oeuf’ is French for egg.” I tried to whine “egg” the next time I was in pain, but it didn’t have the same kick. Driving back, I stopped at McDonald’s in London; after I ordered my meatless egg McMuffin with cheese, the Oeuf McMuffin wrapper was the perfect wrap to receive.

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