poem Writing Your Name, shade, stick, name, preacher, sin, lust, Hell, want, wash poem By Chicago Poet Janet Kuypers

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of Kuypers singing this poem live in Chicago at Ruffled Feathers open mike 6/11/12 (from the Sony camera)

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Writing Your Name (from the book It All Comes Down) in Chicago 11/24/13 (C) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

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of Janet Kuypers reading her poem Writing Your Name (from the book It All Comes Down) in Chicago 11/24/13 (S) at her feature Book Expo 2013 Chicago

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her a mix of her poems There I Sit & Writing Your Name from memory at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (Canon Power Shot).

See YouTube video 2/12/16 of Janet Kuypers reading her 2 poems The Fourteenth & Looking for a Worthy Adversary (an extreme sestina variation), and then her 2 poems There I Sit & Writing Your Name as one, at the Poetry Plus open mic at Cianfrani’s on the Square in Georgetown TX (Cps).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems knowing and lurking for eons, Conversations: a Day of Grieving 1/22/94 eight and Writing Your Name 5/1/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from the Canon Power Shot camera).

See YouTube video of Janet Kuypers reading her 3 poems knowing and lurking for eons, Conversations: a Day of Grieving 1/22/94 eight and Writing Your Name 5/1/16 at the Austin open mic Kick Butt Poetry (video filmed from the Canon Power Shot camera).

Writing Your Name
I sat there
in the shade
I took
a stick
I wrote
your name
in the ground
preacher says
the number one
sin is lust
then I am
condemned
to Hell
for
I
want
you
and I
don’t care
what
preacher says
for if
the elements
wash away
your name tonight
I will
be back
tomorrow
to write it
again.

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the 2007 cc&d v171.5 book Living in Chaos, with material from Janet Kuypers

Life on the Edge, 2007 ccd collection book, front cover

It All Comes Down, 2007 Janet Kuypers book, front cover

Rising to the Surface, 2007 Janet Kuypers book, front cover