RHYTHM IS THE INSTRUMENT

Ministry without religion, since 2013.

Saturday, June 20, 2026

TWILIGHT OF THE IDLE

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Fingers of rosy  cirrus clouds  relinquish the day-old sun  to the heavenly gravity  of what's to come  in the world beyond the horizon....
Friday, June 19, 2026

L'ESPRIT DE L'ESCALIER

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Oddly,  there's exactly  one ecstatic condition  in which I become  my best and truest self— one state  in which I become  wise and disa...
Thursday, June 18, 2026

BEGGARS WOULD RIDE

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If a poem  were a disease, it'd be the world's  laziest fever— one content to fester  slowly behind the scenes,  turning up your tem...
Wednesday, June 17, 2026

APPREHENDED BUT NOT NAMED

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All around the world,  people long to share a bed. Little children crawl under the covers to snuggle  with their fathers and mothers;  men a...
Tuesday, June 16, 2026

SOLSTICE REMIX

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The sleeptalk of winter  performs its glossolalic functions; the rain of romance breeds  its nonchalant flowers; everywhere,  medulla oblong...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

OPEN WIDE

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There's nothing  you can do. Grace  doesn't hug you or invite you to come, and it never offers  grounds or reasons; it snags you  by...
Friday, June 12, 2026

WHY NATURE SUCKS

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Although she abhors  nothing that exists,  she scorns any sense  of that substance as precious;  bad enough  that she gives all  the same gi...
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Dan Smart is a writer, musician, and animal caretaker from Chicago, IL. His poems have appeared in The Los Angeles Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Ocotillo Review, The Blue Mountain Review, Jabberwock Review, Little Stone Journal, Red Fez, and The Legendary, among others; and his first full-length collection "The Flowers of Nonchalance" was released in 2023. In addition, he has sustained the daily poetry blog "Rhythm Is The Instrument" since 2013, which presently contains nearly 4,000 original poems.
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