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Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her v222 8/24 Down in the Dirt issue/book “A Night Shadow” & the CyberWit.net Summer 2024 Janet Kuypers poetry book “The Universe is in Your Hands” book poems “Volcano Lava Along the Road” (+ lava image), “One May Day: Germany”, & “Who Had the Real Power on Planet Earth” (+ showing the Old Faithful image) during her “Poetic License 8/4/24 global open mic” she hosted through a Zoom meeting & a Facebook event page (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; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuyperstheuniverseisinyourhands #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Volcano Lava Along the Road Janet Kuypers 2/19/24 After receiving ashes from Mt. St. Helens, After snorkeling Oahu beaches emerging from lava beds, After walking the ruins of Pompeii from Mt. Vesuvius, After walking the sunken caldera of Deception Island — Antarctica’s volcano — or along Galapagos lava beds, After looking past Earth to volcanoes on our own moon, Astronomers called the moon’s dark spots “seas”, made After not water, but lava... and hearing of more & more Volcanic eruptions                that you better not attribute to global warming, After all this time, I’ve been starting to understand how Volcanoes made 80% of all of the Earth’s surfaces — After they formed our early oceans and atmosphere too. That may be why I drove the roads of New Mexico — Not to perform in a National Poetry Slam Chicago show In Albuquerque, but this time, to just drive on highways, Pull over anywhere along Mount Taylor to pick up red or Black football-sized chunks of lava. And no, you’re not Stealing them, because so many young volcanoes are so Abundant there that you look for things like Mesas to Break up the outdoor museum of volcanoes that is New Mexico. So, I say, take a drive that way. See for yourself.

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