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video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her “Journal Entry” from Canyonlands National Park, + her poems “One Summer: Arizona”, “Edge of that Massive Impact”, & “1864 Mentality in 2024” from the CyberWit 2024 Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” in front of the grain tower for Circle video Brewing Company on 4/28/24 for “the 2024 Poetry Bomb” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed and streamed live from a Samsung S9 camera (posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetrybomb #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands

One Summer: Arizona

Janet Kuypers
1/21/24

I met your roommate, your friends,
drank iced mochas at the Coffee Plantation
due to that Arizona heat.

One lonely afternoon I walked
to your apartment’s pool area to catch a few rays;
since it was just after lunch
I thought I smelled something grilling, sizzling,
so I looked all directions
to look for who was barbecuing.

No one was in sight.

I turned my head down in the heat and inhaled,
and realized that I was smelling
my own burning flesh.
It was 120° that day,
so I decided that was enough sun for me.

Mesa, Phoenix, Scottsdale
may have been fun,
but this is all I can remember:
the heat of Arizona smelled like burning flesh.






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