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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 2/7/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, reading from “Renegade Winter” her haiku “enemy” and her poems “a Happy Ending to Everything” and “a Crack in the Glass”, then from the poetry from the cc&d September-December 2017 issue collection book “Language of Untamed Spirit” she read her poems “erasure poem: The Meaning of Art” and “Dilemmas in Gift Giving”, then she read from the poetry and prose collection anthology “On a Rainy Day” she read her poems “Smelling Sulfur on 9/11”, “Orders”, and “the Battle at Hand” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers at her 2/7/18 “Community Poetry @ Half Price Books” Austin feature reading, reading from “Renegade Winter” her haiku “enemy” and her poems “a Happy Ending to Everything” and “a Crack in the Glass”, then from the poetry from the cc&d September-December 2017 issue collection book “Language of Untamed Spirit” she read her poems “erasure poem: The Meaning of Art” and “Dilemmas in Gift Giving”, then she read from the poetry and prose collection anthology “On a Rainy Day” she read her poems “Smelling Sulfur on 9/11”, “Orders”, and “the Battle at Hand” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).

a Crack in the Glass Janet Kuypers how many times would we sit like this have a meal, have a drink not understand the language of the people around us and not mind and we would sit and eat our food and drink our drink and everything would be just fine and every time our friend would come with us and every time we were here for food and drink there was always a nick in your glass                                    not mine, yours or there would be a crack in the side of your glass and it was never a bad thing in the glass it couldn’t cut us, it couldn’t hurt us it didn’t leak any drink to the table or to your chin and our friend would always tell us that we could sue and you know, we never though of suing and we were never injured and it wasn’t an expensive place to eat anyways and it always happened there when our friend came along and the irony is that he is a lawyer Copyright Janet Kuypers. All rights reserved. No material may be reprinted without express permission.