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video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles and Bling” (written on and for National Jewel Day), “Value of π” (written on and for Pi Day, 3/14), and “Vortexes Indenting our World” (written 3/15, the day after Albert Einstein’s birthday) live 3/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles and Bling” (written on and for National Jewel Day), “Value of π” (written on and for Pi Day, 3/14), and “Vortexes Indenting our World” (written 3/15, the day after Albert Einstein’s birthday) live 3/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera, then given a Posterize filter).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles and Bling” (written on and for National Jewel Day), “Value of π” (written on and for Pi Day, 3/14), and “Vortexes Indenting our World” (written 3/15, the day after Albert Einstein’s birthday) live 3/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Zircon, Gemstones, Baubles and Bling” (written on and for National Jewel Day), “Value of π” (written on and for Pi Day, 3/14), and “Vortexes Indenting our World” (written 3/15, the day after Albert Einstein’s birthday) live 3/16/19 at “Poetry Aloud” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, then given a Sepia Tone filter).
video See YouTube video 8/13/19 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry at the Gallery Cabaret 8/13/19”, where she read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her 2019 books, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” poems “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “March Forth”. Then she read her new poem “Journeys on a Train” poem about the Chicago L train, and then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “haiku (poet)”, “Popular and Useless”, “Quickly Judged”, “Metamorphosis”, “Old Stomping Grounds”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now”, during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera).
video See YouTube video 8/13/19 of Janet Kuypers during her “Poetry at the Gallery Cabaret 8/13/19”, where she read her poem “Our Color, Our Gender, Our Creed” which appears in both of her 2019 books, then her “Every Event of the Year (Volume one: January-June)” poems “We Didn’t Start the Fire”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “March Forth”. Then she read her new poem “Journeys on a Train” poem about the Chicago L train, and then her “(pheromones) haiku, Instagram, Twitter, and poetry” book poems “haiku (poet)”, “Popular and Useless”, “Quickly Judged”, “Metamorphosis”, “Old Stomping Grounds”, and “Eternal Never Ending Now”, during Poetry at The Gallery Cabaret (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “March Forth”, “Equality for Women”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “Oppression on Every Front”, read from the 2/20 v295 cc&d issue/book “Another Lifetime”, live 3/4/20 in her March 2020 Book Release Reading through “Community Poetry” at Half Price Books in Austin (Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “March Forth”, “Equality for Women”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, and “Oppression on Every Front”, read from the 2/20 v295 cc&d issue/book “Another Lifetime”, live 3/4/20 in her March 2020 Book Release Reading through “Community Poetry” at Half Price Books in Austin (Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See YouTube video from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “March Forth”, “Equality for Women”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land”, and “Oppression on Every Front” from the v296Another Lifetime” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for the “2020 #poetrybomb” (filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).
video See Facebook streaming video live from 4/26/20 of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “March Forth”, “Equality for Women”, “Vortexes Indenting our World”, “Once They were Moved to This Foreign Land”, and “Oppression on Every Front” from the v296Another Lifetime” section of the cc&d magazine February-April 2020 issue collection book “Aiming at Immortality” for the “2020 #poetrybomb” (Samsung S9 camera live film; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram and Tumblr).

Vortexes Indenting
               our World

Janet Kuypers
3/15/19

Yesterday I enjoyed reveling in knowledge
about Albert Einstein, since yesterday
was his birthday. March Fourteenth passed

and I reflected on his past, and even on
his scruffy misdemeanor; why worry
about grooming when you’re redefining

the laws of nature. And redefine he did —
I mean, I can understand equating
the bending of spacetime like a vortex

indenting any surface, buy my mind won’t
bend to comprehend the slowing
or speeding of time. Then again, the only

way I’d see that for certain is if I got too
close to a black hole, staying in one
piece to understand the change in time. But

anyway, as I say, yesterday was a great day
for reveling in science, thanks to
a man who had to leave Nazi Germany,

fearing the formulas that he created could be
used to help annihilate all of mankind.
I know this pacifist’s choice to write the U.S.

President, asking him to make this bomb
before Germany did, weighed heavy
on his mind. I just hope it wasn’t so heavy,

making him unable to make additional leaps
of a physicist’s faith, because
one physicist did, Stephen Hawking, battling

not only the scientific world but also ALS,
living much, much longer than my
friend, who even used the same voice box.

I thought for a while yesterday, on March
Fourteenth, what amazing things
these two scientific minds could create, until I

realized that I reflected on the wonder of
Albert Einstein on the day of his birth,
as well as the wonder of Stephen Hawking

on the day he passed away. What gravity
a single day can take to the scientific
world, as well as the world’s goals as a whole.

One day, a day most correspond now to
with the beginning of the number Pi,
but three fourteen is a day that is more

than just about equations. It is also about the
greatest recent scientific minds, opening
the world to more than just equations. Trust me.


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