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video Enjoy this YouTube video on 8/14/24 of Janet Kuypers in the finalé of her “Poetry Open Mic at The Gallery Cabaret with feature Janet Kuypers” feature night in Chicago, where she read her poems “Beginning of the Universe”, “Ukraine, Rights, Freedom, and Peace”, videoUnmarried Women and Dead Bodies Everywhere (The Universe is in Your Hands edit)”, “One hundred-fifty years. What did we learn. (The Universe is in Your Hands edit)”, “Obfuscate the Truth (The Universe is in Your Hands edit)”, “Our Interlocked Dance with the Moon”, and “End of the Universe” for her feature of poetry from the 2024 CyberWit poetry book videoThe Universe is in Your Hands” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and The Universe is in Your Hands Tumblr).
Also enjoy this YouTube video that wasfilmed from a Panasonic Lumix FX300 camera; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr.
Also enjoy this YouTube video that was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix ZS100 camera; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersfeature #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypers #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v224 10/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “Fall Rituals” & the CyberWit Summer 2024 Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” book poems “Edge of that Massive Impact” (+ showing a Meteor Crater image), “Phobos Fears the Dread Deimos Knows”, & “Our Interlocked Dance with the Moon” during her videoPoetic License 10/6/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter/X, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream that was filmed & streamed with a Samsung S9 camera and given an oversun filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Our Interlocked Dance with the Moon

Janet Kuypers
4/30/24

Ripples from the tides lap along the shore as our eyes gaze up
to the Man on the Moon, this mysterious being born from us,
as we feel led in our interlocked dance.
We croon and wax poetic about this seemingly mythical enigma,
but scientists add more satellites to orbit the Moon for research.
Now, since Moon clocks are faster than Earth clocks, the U.S.
government wants NASA to establish a Moon time zone.
Really.
That — and NASA sent me an email recently about sending them
a job application — to become an astronaut.        Now, I know
I don’t have the technical background to fly in outer space—
besides, I’d rather be their 2nd artist in residence instead.

But NASA hasn’t sent me any emails to apply for that job.

The thing is, it wasn’t from astronauts, or NASA, or the news
that I learned our seemingly never-ending dance with the Moon
will end: those tides we keep attributing to the Moon... well,
Earth’s rotation pushes the tidal bulge slightly ahead of the Moon,
feeding bits of energy into the Moon, pushing out the Moon’s orbit,
spinning away from the Earth close to an inch and a half every year —
and I first learned this from NASA’s artist-in-residence.

Because the artists are the ones who tell you the good stuff...
like, during the Cold War, before they put a man on the Moon
the Air Force thought to set off a nuclear bomb on the Moon —
something visible to the naked eye on Earth — because that,
they thought, “would boost the morale of the American people.”
Really.
Then again, after a year of Laurie Anderson’s artist-in-residence,
NASA asked about her “progress” — and she told them she was
writing one long poem.*
That may be when NASA halted its artist-in-residence program.
So, when all these science types are taking over the Moon,
where does that leave room for us poets, artists, dreamers.

 

* “The End of the Moon.”






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