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See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vortex Sucks Us In” (that she wrote that day, starting for Flag Day 6/14, then morphing into friend Thom’s birthday get-together on the same day), live 6/14/19 at Full English Café (this video was filmed from am iPhone camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vortex Sucks Us In” (that she wrote that day, starting for Flag Day 6/14, then morphing into friend Thom’s birthday get-together on the same day), live 6/14/19 at Full English Café (from an iPhone camera, with a Hue Cycling filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vortex Sucks Us In” (that she wrote that day, starting for Flag Day 6/14, then morphing into friend Thom’s birthday get-together on the same day), live 6/14/19 at Full English Café (from an iPhone camera, with a Posterize filter).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vortex Sucks Us In” (that she wrote that day, starting for Flag Day 6/14, then morphing into friend Thom’s birthday get-together on the same day), live 6/14/19 at Full English Café (from an iPhone camera, with a Sepia Tone filter).

See YouTube video live 6/30/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenogeny” (written for Lent), “Unprovable Stories” (written on Atheist Pride Day),and “Vortex Sucks Us In” (written on Flag Day), from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).

See YouTube video live 6/30/19 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Xenogeny” (written for Lent), “Unprovable Stories” (written on Atheist Pride Day),and “Vortex Sucks Us In” (written on Flag Day) from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” at “Spoken and Heard” in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vortex Sucks Us In” (written on Flag Day) read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, “Our Demons can Mark Us” from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, and her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Bromine’s Assault” (#35, Br), during her Poetic License open mic 10/6/19, hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (video filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poem “Vortex Sucks Us In” (written on Flag Day) read from her poetry book “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)”, “Our Demons can Mark Us” from her 2019 book “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry”, and her Twitter Verse Periodic Table poem “Bromine’s Assault” (#35, Br), during her Poetic License open mic 10/6/19, hosting “Poetic License” monthly at Austin’s “Recycled Reads” (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera & Sepia Toned, and posted on Facebook; posted on Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram & Tumblr).

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, “Uphill Battles lead to Changing it Up”, “Voice and Word”, and “Your Essence” from the v184 May 2021 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual first Wednesdays time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram

See this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, “Uphill Battles lead to Changing it Up”, “Voice and Word”, and “Your Essence” from the v184 5/21 Down in the Dirt book “Sprung from Grief”, read 6/2/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading

See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On the Surface”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Quesadich in our Underworld”, “Extra Blade”, “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” from the Down in the Dirt May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “On the Surface”, “Beryllium Shimmers”, “Over the Lives”, “Elaborate Exaltation”, “Quesadich in our Underworld”, “Extra Blade”, “Learning More (2020 edit)”, “Vortex Sucks Us In”, and “Bronze Sculptures will Crumble to Pieces” from the Down in the Dirt May-August 2021 issue collection book “Lockdown’s Over” 10/6/21 on the 1st Wednesday of the month from 1:00-3:00 PM CST during the usual time for the “Community Poetry” open mic (filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Vortex Sucks Us In Janet Kuypers 6/14/19 (Flag Day) We rally under a flag for unity, we use that as our symbol to connect us And people wear their flag on a bandana to wipe off sweat, or on shorts to sit on think this is how to be patriotic... but on days like this we use any excuse to get together and revel in the things that bind us, keep us together. And at moments like this we feel the pull, and together it’s like we suddenly feel the tilt of planet Earth, as it spins on its axis all year and we     fall     in. Because at moments like this, with all this unity we share we create this vortex, and as I said, we feel this pull — of our axis, of each other — and it sucks us in

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