Spoken Word
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Text and Video: abi asks why i answer the ten oclock
abi asks why i answer the ten oclockquestions at rex’s café yeahhe sold that land sold the machinery he’s retired now y’knowbought that pickup new and all he doesis drive the old lady to the city to do errandspick up groceries at the i g afeed at the mill so she can feedthe chickens in… Continue reading
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Text & Video: it was she who plowed furrows in the field.
it was she who plowed the furrows in the fieldand as she filled those furrows with seedhis highness gambled the acres out from under the machinery wheelsgambled the machinery right out from under her ass and the bankraked in the potraked in the harvestraked our inheritance into their record profits tell me abby won’t speak… Continue reading
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Text and Video: abi’ll bring the baby home
abi’ll bring the baby homeput him to bed on a rug where the lino is worn through to the bare floor woodi’m afraid she’ll speak how we liveinto the child’s name the name by which we must call himwe must call him solomonthe lioness expects ithttps://youtube.com/shorts/FMOpU8CtAWs?feature=share Continue reading
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Text and Video: back in august
back in augustwe’d planned to put a crib in that second roomi laid a light colouredcarpet down against a somber tone in there and nowthe child’ld catch a chillunder the warmth i painted across the ceiling in whiteand through the cheerful air i painted on the walls in yellowhe’d catch his death by coldhttps://www.youtube.com/shorts/55Z7Fu8U9Ps Continue reading
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Text and Video: i never thought as i carried her over the threshold
i never thought as i carried her over the thresholdthat the october wind would blowthis cold and this continuous through the wallfrom around the window frame in the wallit blows down on where the child’ll sleepblows the pilot light in the gasfurnace out and this with cold cominghttps://youtube.com/shorts/rNrpKJ2LXr4?feature=share Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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 Continue reading
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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/ Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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