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of Janet Kuypers’ prose Soybeans (Cfs) from the Down in the Dirt magazine 2015 issue collection book Adrift, the issues and chapbooks edition live 7/22/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago

See YouTube video
of Janet Kuypers’ prose Soybeans (Cps) from the Down in the Dirt magazine 2015 issue collection book Adrift, the issues and chapbooks edition live 7/22/15 at the open mic the Café Gallery in Chicago

See YouTube video in Chicago of Janet Kuypers hosting the poetry open mic 7/22/15 at Gallery Cabaret’s the Café Gallery, with her reading this piece

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Boron’s Birth (+ shares its online image) and “Boron nitride stretching (+ shares its online image, then her micro prose “Soybeans” and “fox in the snow” from the v193 3/22 Down in the Dirt book “Just a Few Butterflies” during the “Poetic License global open mic 3/6/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera with a lava lamp filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Boron’s Birth (+ shares its online image) and “Boron nitride stretching (+ shares its online image, then her micro prose “Soybeans” and “fox in the snow” from the v193 3/22 Down in the Dirt book “Just a Few Butterflies” during the “Poetic License global open mic 3/6/22” she hosted through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “How a Woman Falls in Love”, “Seven Miles”, “Soybeans”, and “Brushes with Greatness” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her micro-prose “How a Woman Falls in Love”, “Seven Miles”, “Soybeans”, and “Brushes with Greatness” from the Down in the Dirt 1-4/22 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “The Ice that Was” on 8/3/22 on the 1st Wednesday of the month (1:00-3:00 PM CST) in honor of ‘Community Poetry’ (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading

Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading “Soybeans”, her prose from the books “the 2023 flash fiction date book” & “The Ice that Was” as a bonus reading during her

“Poetic License 1/7/24 global open mic” through a Zoom meeting and a Facebook event page (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). Also enjoy this as a Facebook live video stream (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera and given a Paper Tear filter; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Link ed in, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperspoeticlicense

Soybeans

Have you ever jumped in a vat of soybeans before? It’s very strange, it feels like you’re a kid in one of those playground things where you jump in a pit of colored plastic balls. Except soybeans are a lot smaller than those balls in the playgrounds, and I guess they don’t have all those colors. Well anyway, I went over to his grandparent’s farm, and he decided to take me on a tour of the farmhouse. The cows were smelly, I made sure I kept my distance, and I just kept calling to them, saying, “hello, moo-cow.” And there were a bunch of cats running around the field, and we picked up a couple kittens and held them up high in the air. I kept asking the cats, “do you love me?” and he kept asking me why I was asking for approval from cats. Then we gave them some milk from his uncle’s farmhouse. And then he took me up a ladder to the top floor of the barn.

That’s when he proceeded to take off his shoes and jump over into a ledge. He told me to join him. I couldn’t quite see what I was about to jump into, it was almost dusk, but I took off my shoes and socks and jumped in anyway.

And my ankles sunk into the soybeans. And I started laughing. And I fell, and then I started to bury myself in soybeans. And then I jumped around a few more times, then I just started throwing soybeans at him.

And then I just laid down in the pit of soybeans for awhile. They felt cool on my skin. I could feel the dust from them covering my legs, my calves.

There are time like that, times when I just have to let go.