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  • with nora removed

    with nora removedby a dialect for every fingerand by another for every toegone to antwerp to learn to speak a dutch you don’t understandi asked that you remove your shirtand barechested lieface up and flat backed to the flooryour eyes became a mouththey uttered that i’d cursed in my supplications as i prayed to slice…

  • i never thought as i carried her over the threshold 05

    Hi Everyone: Here’s the fifth segment: https://youtube.com/shorts/KlMSyKKNnFo?feature=share

  • i hear that you’ve sworn to abdicate

    i hear that you’ve sworn to abdicatefrom your scholarship here at this university to walk awayfrom the vacation of your dormitory from the evacuationof your fortunes from wittenberg the weekly assembly gathers mondaydeparts from the town at dawn i want shame to creep   heat   blushup your neck into your faceas you walk across the empire…

  • Video: i never thought as i carried her over the threshold 04

    Here’s the next segment of the poem…. https://youtube.com/shorts/8PnTtrVXN5E?feature=share

  • confess if you will or don’t

    confess if you will or don’tthat you’d have bedded your hand on a bible to swearto the lies that you had no want to seethe rouge on her cheek to hearhow her voice soundedto smell the alcohol in her perfumeto taste her kisses lieand tell me you wanted only to ask her name

  • Video: i never thought as i carried her over the threshold -03

    Hi: Here’s the third segment of the poem:

  • let’s speak of nora

    let’s speak of noraforsake what you vowed that night at the elector’s ball once you saw her across the dance floorthen looked at her a hundred timesyour religion becamethe hamster urge that’s buttonedcaged in your embroidered jerkin

  • Video: i never thought as i carried her over the threshold 02

    Here’s the link to the second segment of the poem: https://youtube.com/shorts/0mONfMt10zM?si=YcCE3WCBilmfJ3BB And the link to the print version of the poem: https://jakedepeuterpoetics.com/2024/07/28/i-never-thought-as-i-carried-her-over-the-threshold/

  • robbers and the rulers

    robbers and the rulersof the domains through which you’d gothey watch the roads for passing fortunes they can seizeor for fortunate people they can spend on a ransom rather than four guilders paid at the first of each of the five months that followpay for the first three months when he signsand for the last…

  • Video: i never thought as i carried her over the threshold 01

    With some encouragement of friends I’ve decided to video record myself speaking segments of “i never thought as i carried her over the threshold.” I’d hoped to record the entire poem at one point, but that was before my chronic shortness of breath due to COPD. The reason I post the video by sharing the…