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video See a YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Listen to Life”, and “Xenon, Stranger than Strange” from the February 2021 v180 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine/book “Eclipsed” for The Café Gallery 2/3/21 Book Reading in The Café Gallery Book Reading series (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera, and posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See a Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Listen to Life”, and “Xenon, Stranger than Strange” from the February 2021 v180 issue of Down in the Dirt magazine/book “Eclipsed” for The Café Gallery 2/3/21 Book Reading (this video was filmed and streamed from a Samsung S9 camera).   #janetkuypers   #janetkuyperspoetry   #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersthecafegallery
video See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Listen to Life”, “Xenon, Stranger than Strange”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing” from the “Eclipsed” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years”, read 5/5/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (from a Panasonic Lumix 2500 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram
video See this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her poems “Listen to Life”, “Xenon, Stranger than Strange”, and “Genesis Four: Cain and Abel, and sin from killing” from the “Eclipsed” section of the Scars Publications 1-4 2021 Down in the Dirt issue collection book “Excerpts from the Plague Years”, read 5/5/21 during the usual time for Austin’s “Community Poetry” feature reading (from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr).  #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuypersinstagram
video Enjoy this YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading set 1 of her never-before-read “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” poems “Tellurium so High in the Sky” (#52, Te), “Iodine on the X Files” (#53, I), “Xenon discovers dark energy?” (#54 Xe), “Xenon, Stranger than Strange” (#54, Xe), “Cesium for Certainty” (#55, Cs), and “Barium Dateline” (#56, Ba) before the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed from a Panasonic Lumix T56 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Pinterest, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem
video Enjoy this Facebook live video stream of Janet Kuypers reading set 1 of her never-before-read “Twitter Verse Periodic Table Poetry” poems “Tellurium so High in the Sky” (#52, Te), “Iodine on the X Files” (#53, I), “Xenon discovers dark energy?” (#54 Xe), “Xenon, Stranger than Strange” (#54, Xe), “Cesium for Certainty” (#55, Cs), and “Barium Dateline” (#56, Ba) before the “Beach Poets bonus week with Janet Kuypers feature” 6/26/22 in Chicago (this video was filmed & streamed from a Samsung S9 camera; posted on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, and Tumblr). #janetkuypers #janetkuyperspoetry #janetkuypersbookreading #janetkuyperstwitterverseperiodictablepoem

Xenon, Stranger
      than Strange

Janet Kuypers
12/18/19, Periodic Table Twitter Verse
poem for the element Xenon (#54, Xe),
posted on Facebook and Twitter

my stranger,
my strange one

my phobia of you
makes me afraid
of everything —
though in my car
I turn you on
and you light my way
through darkness

don’t tell me
you’re stable
if I go numb
when you let me
breathe you in

this is why
you must remain
my foreign fiend


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